RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1961 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/vd6724704 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch ORASHKB and author Vol. 1 (1961) ISSN 1991-7295 127 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH List of Members at 28th February, 1961. ABRAHAM, R. D. Aide-de-Camp AKERS JONES, D. Allen, H. W. ALLEYNE, Mrs. E. L. BAIRD, J. W. BARD, Dr. S. M. BARNETT, K. M. A. BARON, D. W. B. BARR, J. S. BASTO, G. de BARTON, T. The Hon. H. D. M. BAUER, Miss H. BEIDLER, P. BERTUCCIOLI, G. P. BIRNBAUM, Mrs. S. D. BLACK, D. L. BLACKMORE, M. BLUNDEN, Prof. E. C. BONSALL, G. W. BRAGA, J. M. BRAWN, Squadron Ldr. W. N. H. BREUIL, Mrs. N. du BRIMMELL, J. H. BROOKS, D. E. BURKHARDT, Col. V. R. BUSH, R. C. BYRNE, D. J. CALLAHAN, G. W. CHAN, Dr. H. C. CHAU, The Hon. Sir Tsun-Nin CHENG, Dr. Irene CHENG, T. C. CHEUNG, Oswald 41 Island Road, Deep Water Bay, H.K.Government House, H.K. N. Kowloon Magistracy, Taipo Road, Kln.U.S. Consulate-General, H.K. H.K.U.Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., H.K. H.K.U.P.O. Box 248, H.K. 361 The Peak, H.K.Chung Chi College, Ma Liu Shui, N.T. 604 Fu House, 7 Ice House Street, H.K.Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., H.K. U.S.L.S., U.S. Consulate-General, H.K.U.S. Embassy, Saigon, Vietnam Ministero degli Esteri, RomeFar East Mansions, Apt. 5-H, Kln. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Alexandra House, H.K.Dept. of History, H.K.U. H.K.U.P.O. Box 951, H.K. Air Headquarters, H.K.86 Main Street, Stanley, H.K. Flat 4, 12 Magazine Gap Road, H.K. Radio Hong Kong86 Main Street, Stanley, H.K. Tao Fong Shan, Shatin, N.T.China Light & Power Co., Ltd., Argyle Street, Kln. Apt. 23, Kellett Grove, The Peak, H.K.Bank of Canton Building, H.K. 8 Queen's Road West, H.K.Education Dept., Fung House, 5th fl., H.K. S.C.A. Fire Brigade Building, H.K.1002 Alexandra House, H.K. Page 127 Page 127 Page 127 Page 128 Page 128 Page 128 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1968 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/66833948d 1966 HON. TREASURER'S REPORT INCOME & EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1967 EXPENDITURE HK$ 2,691 Sundry Expenses 1,485 Symposium Expenses Journal Expenses: 1967 Journal and 1966 INCOME HK$ 2,161 1,100 HK$ 180 Sundry Receipts HK$ 200 1,053 Symposium Receipts 1,192 1,383 Journal Receipts 1,708 6,854 Sundries Symposium 58,120 4,144 Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao 406 12,670 60 185 Lecture Expenses 507 6,443 HK$17,658 Purchase of Library Books Surplus Excess of Income over 1,190 Expenditure HK$17,628 HK$17,658 2,055 Interest on Investments 2,750 Life Memberships: 1967 10,177 Annual Memberships: 1967 Annual Memberships 1968 paid in 1967 Deficit Excess of Expenditure over Income 2,249 580 10,901 60 738 ... HK$17,628 BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st December, 1967 LIABILITIES ASSETS 6,443 HK$35,973 Surplus at 1st January 1967 Less: Expenditure over Income in 1967 HK$42,416 HK$28,431 Investments at Cost 738 13,000 Cash Deposit 985 Cash at Bank 42,416 Surplus at 31st December 1967 41,678 Sundry Creditor --- Printing Charges HK$42,416 12,612 HK$54,290 HK$42,416 INVESTMENTS 125 shares H.K. & Shanghai Banking Corp. London Register at 138.50 200 China Light and Power Co. Ltd. 700 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 at 16.85 at 86-11/16 HK$17,312 3,370 8,832 (£607 at 14.55) HK$29,514 (Signed) D. A. GILKES, Hon. Treasurer, (Signed) O. P. EDWARDS, Hon. Auditor. HK$28,431 25,333 526 HK$54,290 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1968 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/66833948d THE HANKOW STEAMER TEA RACES 51 say with any degree of accuracy, although probably one-third of this consumption would drive her about 12 knots an hour. On the principle that, while 100 horse-power would drive a steamship ten knots an hour, it would require 1,000 horse-power to propel her at the rate of twenty knots (all other conditions being in proportion), it will be seen that Mr. Macgregor's grounds and conditions for accelerated speed are not only reasonable but indispensable: the few last knots always the most expensive, and apparently almost prohibitive. "Indeed, the present tendency seems to be towards a falling-off in the inclination to pay for such acceleration, so far as Tea freights are concerned: but time will show. Last year [1881] the slowing down of the three Glens was positive proof that the desire for fast passages had declined; and the projected telegraph to Hankow may possibly materially interfere with high freights for the future. In face of these facts, it appears clear that the large capacity of the Glenogle is a decided advantage. The Glenogle took Home this year 5,206 tons of Tea and 185 tons of miscellaneous cargo; and when she left London a few weeks ago she carried 4,022 tons of general merchandise to China; that is, she has taken into London and brought back to the East the largest cargoes that have been carried in one bottom since the opening of the China trade." J Events soon proved the soundness of the view taken by the China Mail's contributor. [Plates 1 and 2 illustrate this article]. NOTES The material has been obtained from articles in contemporary newspapers in the library of the Supreme Court, Hong Kong mainly the Hong Kong Telegraph and the China Mail, which also quoted from many other newspapers in the area. Grateful thanks are given to Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co. for their permission to use this material which was sent to them and formed the basis of an article in their House Magazine. The contemporary account has a vividness which is often lacking in the more formal history. Quotation is therefore used to give light to the story. No attempt is made to deal more than superficially with the events and there are gaps in the information provided. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1970 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ww72j0241 1968 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1969 EXPENDITURE HK$10,518 Journal Expenses 1,020 Symposium Expenses 1,971 Purchase of Library Books 3,438 Sundry Expenses (printing, stationery, postage, Lecture expenses) 6,970 HK$24,368 Balance being surplus of income over expenditure transferred to accumulated Funds 1968 INCOME HK$ 1,100 Life Memberships 1969 11,380 Annual Memberships 1969 210 Annual Memberships 1970 paid in 1969 6,118 Sale of Publications 1,382 Symposium Receipts 2,041 Bank Interest Received 1,916 Dividends Received 221 Sundry Receipts HK$20,020 HK$24,368 HK$ 410 10,559 90 3,728 1,082 1,075 2,865 211 HK$20,020 QUOTED INVESTMENTS HELD AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1969 £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 333 Shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. 400 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. 450 Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Cost Market Value HK$11,488 HK$ 7,473 4,030 9,124 12,487 16,100 15,549 20,138 HK$43,554 HK$52,835 12 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1970 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ww72j0241 # THE BEGINNINGS OF TAIPINGSHAN 77 Office's records had fallen owing to non-registration of transactions (it being by then more or less necessary for a purchaser to take a chance on the title to land offered to him by a vendor), a strenuous effort was made to regularise the situation and much "squatting" without title and consequently, in most cases, non-payment of Crown Rent, came to light. The end for old Taipingshan came not in the 1880's but in the 1890's when Bubonic Plague was brought to the Colony from West China. The most virulent reservoir of the bacillus turned out to be Taipingshan. The only solution, not only to the problem of stamping out the plague but also to other forms of social offence given by the district, was to remove the Chinese town physically. This was done by powers given in the Taipingshan Resumption Ordinance of 1894, and the result was wholesale demolition of much property and re-aligning of old and construction of new roads. Taipingshan had to be razed and, fortunately for Hong Kong, never rose again in its former glory. University of London, 1968. DAFYDD EMRYS Evans Mr. Evans is Professor of Law in the University of Hong Kong. Two of his earlier contributions to the early history of Hong Kong appeared in the Notes and Queries section of the 1968 Journal. NOTES 1 The area was known as Taipingshan from the early days of the colony and its name is not derived from its function as a refuge for T'ai Ping rebels in later years. 2 See Gordon (Land Officer) to Pottinger, CO129/Vol II, f. 152, 3 See Gordon to Malcolm (Colonial Secretary), CO129/Vol. II, f. 138 dated 6 July 1843. 4 The rents for both the Upper and Lower Bazaar Lots represented the same rate per square foot as that charged by Johnston for Town Lots. 5 But the Chinese were turning to the use of brick rather than wood by the end of 1841; see Canton Press, 19 February 1842. 6 Gordon to Pottinger, 19 December 1843; CO129, Vol. II, p. 445. 7 Davis to Stanley 26 July 1844; CO129, Vol. VI, p. 435. 8 Woosnam (Pottinger's private secretary) to Gordon, 10 January 1844: CO129, Vol. V. p. 69. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1971 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/z029vt43g 1969 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1970 EXPENDITURE HK$10,743 Journal Expenses 1,020 Symposium Expenses Peking Opera - - - 175 Purchase of Books 2,391 Sundry Expenses 5,691 HK$20,020 J (printing, stationery, postage, lecture expenses) Balance being surplus of income over expenditure transferred to accumulated funds HK$20,350 2,637 2,576 219 2,933 1969 90 INCOME HK$ 410 Life Memberships 1970 10,559 Annual Memberships 1970 Annual Memberships 1971 paid in 1970 3,728 Sale of Publications 1,082 Symposium Receipts 1,075 Bank Interest Received 2,865 Dividends Received 211 Sundry Receipts Balance being deficit of expenditure over income transferred to accumulated funds HK$ 500 10,853 240 3,509 2,699 685 3,350 350 6,529 HK$28,715 HK$28,715 HK$20,020 QUOTED INVESTMENTS HELD at 31ST DECEMBER, 1970 £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 333 Shares China Light and Power Co. Ltd. 800 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. 900 Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Cost HK$11,488 Market Value HK$ 7,661 4,030 12,487 11,738 19,600 15,549 25,110 HK$43,554 HK$64,109 11 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1972 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gm80qf99h 1970 LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1971 1970 ASSETS HK$43,554 Quoted Investments (see below)... HK$43,516 HK$64,321 (6,529) Balance as at 1st January 1971 HK$57,792 Sundry Debtors 38 Deduct: Deficit of Expenditure over Income in 1971 13,415 Balance at Banks 15,520 Fixed Deposit 2,303 Deposit at Call 12,479 Current Account 4,430 31,046 57,792 31st December 1971 ... 57,000 Sundry Creditors - Printing Charges 17,000 17,600 HK$74,792 HK$74,600 HK$74,792 HK$74,600 Note: QUOTED INVESTMENTS HELD AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1971 £700 Stock Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 465 Shares China Light and Power Co., Ltd. (including 33 unpaid Rights) 800 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. 900 Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Market Value HK$9,166 Cost HK$11,488 3,992 12,487 17,205 33,200 15,549 28,575 HK$43,516 HK$88,146 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1973 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8910rj06r ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 1972 1971 LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds H.K. Currency $43,516 Quoted Investments (see below) H.K. Currency $60,541 1972 $57,792 Balance as at 1st January 38 Sundry Debtors $57,000 Balance at Banks 792 Deduct: Deficit of Expenditure over Income in 1972 14,137 Fixed Deposit 1,550 12,479 4,430 Deposit at Call Current Account $14,737 13,322 28,059 $57,000 Balance of Accumulated Funds at 31st December 1972 Sundry Creditors $55,450 17,600 Printing Charges $22,000 Hon. Treasurer. Thailand Trip Deposits 11,150 33,150 $74,600 $88,600 $74,600 $88,600 Note: QUOTED INVESTMENTS held at 31ST DECEMBER 1972 £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 465 Shares China Light and Power Co., Ltd. 800 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. 900 'A' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 6,300 'B' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Market Value HK$ 7,587.65 Cost HK$11,488.38 4,816.82 25,342.50 12,486.80 46,000.00 15,549.40 35,100.00 16,200.00 21,420.00 HK$60,541.40 HK$135,450.15 Page 15 Page 16 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1973 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8910rj06r NOTES AND QUERIES 145 ning among other matters the subjugation of the non-Chinese tribes of the interior.* At the age of 71 he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Civil Affairs in Nanking and later Vice-President of the Censorate. He died in great poverty in 1587 aged 74, his friends defraying the cost of his burial. In November 1965 the editor of the Shanghai Wen Wei Pao, Yao Wen-yuan, who was also a left-inclined literary and theatre critic, published an article in which he criticised an historical drama "The dismissal of Hai Jui" written by the then Deputy Mayor of Peking, Wu Han. Yao's article was the opening volley in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which created such turmoil in China and purged so many of the senior communist cadres including Wu Han himself. Yao rose quickly and by 1969 was sixth in the leadership of the Chinese People's Republic only to slip to a lower position at the 10th Party Congress in August 1973. Yao, still a member of the Politbureau, is reported to be the son-in-law of Chairman Mao and a close associate of the radical Madame Mao. Wu Han's historical play which cost him so dearly was criticised by Yao as an analogy of Mao's treatment of his "loyal minister” Peng Te-huai, the Minister of National Defence purged by Mao in 1959. P'eng had been very outspoken in his opposition to two of the things closest to Mao's heart, the Great Leap Forward and the establishment of the People's Communes. Hai Jui is well known to many Chinese as the minister who steadfastly opposed corruption. A legend told to me in Singapore by an elderly Buddhist nun recounted how Hai Jui as a very young junior official had been posted to the Swatow region (Ch'aochow) where a group of tyrannical landowners together with the local magistrate's police runners were terrorizing the people. The legend then told of Hai Jui's fight, first against his local superiors in support of the poor, later against the Prime Minister and finally against the Emperor himself. Hai Jui was forced to commit suicide, she said, to compel the Emperor to take notice of the problems of the masses and for this he was deified by the subsequent Emperor and is now one of the patrons of the Ch'aochow people. See, in part, Herbert A. Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (London and Shanghai, Bernard Quaritch and Kelly and Walsh, 1898) pp. 242-243. Also W. F. Mayers, The Chinese Reader's Manual (Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, and London, Trübner and Co., 1874) pp. 45-46. Ed. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1974 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/x633mp077 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET as at 31ST DECEMBER 1973 LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds $57,000 $55,450.36 Balance as at 1st January, 1973... Add: Surplus on Sale of 400 Lane Crawford "A" Shares $38,762.34 $55,450.36 38,762.34 Excess of Income over Expenditure in 1973. $5,513.40 HK$ $ 53,630.74 Balance at Banks $55,450 Balance of Accumulated Funds at 31st December 1973 Sundry Creditors Printing Charges $ 99,726.10 22,000 18,000.00 Thailand Trip .. 14,737 13,322 1972 1972 HK$ $60,541 HK$ $ 60,541,40 6,910.66 (1,550) ++ $ 53,630.74 5,513.40 J ASSETS Quoted Investments (see below) Cost at 1st January, 1973 Deduct: Cost of 400 “A” Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Sold ... HK$ Fixed Deposit $56,743.58 6,000.00 Deposit at Call 1,351.78 Current Account 64,095.36 11,150 TTL $88,600 $117,726.10 $88,600 $117,726.10 D. A. GILKES, Hon. Treasurer. Note: QUOTED INVESTMENTS HELD AT 31ST DECEMBER 1973 £700 Stocks 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 Cost HK$11,488.38 Market Value HK$ 5,493.65 674 Shares China Light and Power Co. Ltd. 4,816.82 13,143.00 6,000 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. 12,486.80 23,400.00 500 "A" Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 8,638.74 9,100.00 6,300 "B" Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 16,200.00 15,120.00 HK$53,630.74 HK$66,256.65 8 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1975 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d 1973 HK$ $ 55,450 Balance as at 1st January 1974 ... $ 99,726.10 Add: Surplus on Sale of 400 Lane Crawford Ltd. 'A' Shares 38,763 Excess of Income over Expenditure in 1974 5,513 LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 1974 ASSETS Quoted Investments (see below) Cost at 1st January 1974 Deduct: Cost of 400 Lane Crawford Ltd. 'A' Shares Add: Purchase of 23 rights shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. 1973 $ 60,541 HK$ $ 53,630.74 6,910 457.15 7,640.07 $ 53,631 $ 54,087.89 Balance of Accumulated Funds at 31st December 1974 $107,366.17 Balance at Banks $99,726 56,743 Fixed Deposit $69,973.75 6,000 Deposit at Call 6,000.00 3,804.53 79,778.28 18,000 Printing Charges 26,500.00 $117,726 $133,866.17 $117,726 $133,866.17 Note: QUOTED INVESTMENTS HELD AT 31st December 1974 £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 697 Shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. 6,000 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. 500 'A' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 6,300 'B' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Cost HK$11,488.38 Market Value HKS 5,283.43 5,273.97 7,388.20 12,486.80 13,800.00 8,638.74 3,700.00 16,200.00 5,670.00 HK$54,087.89 HK$35,841.63 11 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1976 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/hq382988q LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 1975 1974 HK$ 1974 $ 99,726 Balance at 1st January 1975 $107,366.17 $ 53,631 7,640 Less: Excess of Expenditure over Income in 1975 6,862.67 457 ASSETS HH Quoted Investments (see below) Cost at 1st January 1975 Add: Purchase of Rights Shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. $ 687.20 H.K. Electric Co. Ltd. $ 54,087.89 1,200.00 Balance of Accumulated Funds $107,366 at 31st December 1975 Sundry Creditors $100,503.50 40,000.00 $ 54,088 1,887.20 $ 55,975.09 Balance at Banks 69,974 6,000 3,804 Fixed Deposits $80,559.92 Deposit at Call Current Account 3,968.49 84,528.41 $133,866 $140,503.50 $133,866 $140,503.50 NOTE: Quoted Investments held at 31st December 1975. £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 766 Shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. 7,200 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. 500 'A' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 6,300 'B' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. D. A. GILKES, Hon. Treasurer. Cost Market Value HK$11,488.38 HK$ 5,161.10 5,961.17 12,639.00 13,686.80 27,000.00 8,638.74 7,900.00 16,200.00 9,450.00 HK$55,975.09 HK$62,150.10 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1977 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/np198x23n 1974 LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET as at 31ST DECEMBER 1975 HK$ 1974 ASSETS HK$ Quoted Investments (see below) $ 99,726 7,640 Balance at 1st January 1975 Less: Excess of Expenditure over Income in 1975 $107,366.17 $ 53,631 Cost at 1st January 1975 $ 54,087.89 Add: Purchase of Rights Shares China Light & 6,862.67 457 Power Co. Ltd. $ 687.20 H.K. Electric Co. Ltd. 1,200.00 $107,366 Balance of Accumulated Funds at 31st December 1975 $100,503.50 $ 54,088 1,887.20 $ 55,975.09 Balance at Banks 26,500 Sundry Creditors 40,000.00 + + 69,974 Fixed Deposits $80,559.92 6,000 3,804 Deposit at Call Current Account + ++1 3,968.49 84,528.41 $133,866 $140,503.50 $133,866 $140,503.50 NOTE: Quoted Investments held at 31st December 1975. ++ £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/80 766 Shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. 7,200 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. 500 'A' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 6,300 'B' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Cost Market Value ++ HK$11,488.38 HK$ 5,161.10 4 5,961.17 12,639.00 13,686.80 27,000.00 8,638.74 7,900.00 16,200.00 HK$55,975.09 HK$62,150.10 9,450.00 00 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1978 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8g84t8593 1976 LIABILITIES Accumulated Funds THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST DECEMBER 1977 HK$ 1976 ASSETS $100,503 Balance at 1st January 1977 $55,975 $97,541.53 2,962 Less: Excess of Expenditure over Income in 1977 2,808.12 1,440 Quoted Investments (see note 2 below) Cost at 1st January 1977 ... Add: Purchase of Rights Shares Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. HK$ $57,415.09 $57,415 $57,415.09 $97,541 24,000 Sundry Creditors-Printing charges Balance of Accumulated Funds at 31st December 1977 $94,733.41 Balance at Banks 25,000.00 62,086 2,040 Fixed Deposits Current Account $57,409.60 $121,541 $119,733.41 $121,541 4,908.72 62,318.32 $119,733.41 NOTE: 1. Incomes from Subscription are accounted for on cash basis. 2. Quoted Investments held at 31st December 1977. £700 Stock 6% Commonwealth of Australia 1977/78 1,114 Shares China Light & Power Co., Ltd. 10,080 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. 2,750 'A' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. 34,650 'B' Shares Lane Crawford Ltd. Cost Market Value HK$11,488.38 HK$5,667.20 5,961.17 22,168.60 15,126.80 50,400.00 8,638.74 12,925.00 16,200.00 18,018.00 HK$57,415.09 HK$109,178.80 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1980 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/kh04md207 # THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY HONG KONG BRANCH ## BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1979 ### ASSETS QUOTED INVESTMENTS (see note 2 below) Cost at 1st January, 1979 $57,415.00 Add: Purchase of Rights Shares: China Light & Power Co., Ltd. $3,330.00 Purchase of Reg. Warrants: Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. $8,465.00 $69,210.00 Deduct: Cost of shares sold: 3,025 shares of Lane Crawford "A" $(6,366) $62,844.00 ### QUOTED INVESTMENTS AT COST Lane Crawford "A" $8,638.74 38,115 shares of Lane Crawford "B" $2,453.55 $16,200.00 $24,838.74 $88,367.00 ### BALANCE AT BANKS Fixed Deposits $88,906.32 Deposit at Call $5,545.63 Current Account $1,359.28 $95,811.23 ### LIABILITIES SUNDRY CREDITORS $24,000 Printing Charges for Journal $27,000.00 $14,952 $112,367 $40,000 ### ACCUMULATED FUNDS Balance as at 1st January, 1979 $88,367.22 Add Surplus on Sales of Shares: 1978 $94,733 Lane Crawford "A" $12,494.96 38,115 shares of Lane Crawford "B" $9,866.85 $22,361.81 Excess of Income over Expenditure in 1979 $24,838.74 $113,182.58 Balance of Accumulated Funds at 31st December, 1979 $44,371.35 $140,182.58 $112,387 $140,182.58 D. A. GILKES, Hon. Treasurer ## NOTE: 1. Incomes from subscription are accounted for on cash basis. 2. Quoted Investments held at 31st December, 1979. £700 Stocks 6% Commonwealth of Australia_1977/80 Cost HK$11,488.38 Market Value HK$7,063.35 1,781 Shares China Light & Power Co. Ltd. $9,291.17 $38,647.70 16,934 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. $15,126.80 $104,144.10 1,693 Shares Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. Reg Warrants HK$10 1988/92 $8,465.00 $8,465.00 $44,371.35 $158,320.15 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1990 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/d79206299 255 The Hong Kong Guide 1893 (republished 1982) Hughes, Richard, Borrowed Place Borrowed Time, Hong Kong and its Many Faces (London 1968, reprinted 1976) Hunter, W.C., The "Fan Kwac" at Canton Before Treaty Days 1825-1844 (republished 1965) Hutcheon, Robin, The Blue Flame, 125 Years of Town Gas in Hong Kong (1987) Hutcheon, Robin, Wharf. 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Ltd Hong Kong Bank Group Magazines Hong Kong Land 1889/1989 Hong Kong's Noonday Gun (Jardine) Hutchison Whampoa Limited (annual reports) Inchcape: The International Services and Marketing Group A Pictorial History of Hong Kong Electric Standard Chartered News ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1999 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/s178b887x 209 to find there is an image of the great Ch'ing emperor Ch'ien Lung (reigned 1735-1798) on the altar! My own experiences in Hong Kong have highlighted this feature of Chinese religious life. Examples that come to light include the many images washed-up from the sea and placed in temples or shrines (Shaukiwan and Ngau Chi Wan, East Kowloon), the Kwun Yam image in the Tai Ping Shan temple to that goddess, and the Kwun Yam image that started the Kwun Yam Temple at Tung Shan, east Kowloon. These examples, readily multiplied here and elsewhere, amount to "cults of numberless description". 30 There is much relevant background in the long chapter on Chinese religion in Vol. II of Latourette, op.cit., especially at pp. 124-132, 139-140, and 162-167. 31 See Hong Kong Standard [ ] February 1986, with photographs, for a recent example at Shun Fung Village (Fui Sha Wai), Yuen Long, occasioned by the tree in question having to be felled to make way for the construction of the Light Rail System. 32 William John Townsend, Robert Morrison, The Pioneer of Chinese Missions (London, Partridge & Co., n.d. but my copy presented in 1892), pp.266-267. John Crawford also singles out the women for special mention in the journal of his embassy to Siam and Cochin China in 1821-22, where he cites from the Manuscript of Monsieur Chaigneau, "The religion of Cochin China is, with little difference, the same as that of China. The lower orders, the women, the ignorant, follow the worship of Buddha; while persons of rank, and men of letters, are of the sect of Confucius”. See John Crawford (with an Introduction by David K.Wyatt) Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China (Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1987), p.500, fn. ================================================================================