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Steamliners to Macao

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-17 16:03

I've been searching the web for info about the steamliners, Tak Sing, Dai Loy, Fat Shin, and Macao, ferrying passengers between HK and Macao.  Save for Fat Shin (because it was sunk and with big loss of lives), I couldn't find too much info on the other three.  Anybody has some photos of the Tak Sing, Dai Loy and Macao to post?  When was the ferry service discontinued? 

Casinos

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Fri, 2010-05-14 13:15

Were there ever any legally operated casinos in Hong Kong? 

Housing Project in North Point

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Tue, 2010-05-11 15:39

Any photos available showing the housing project (3 buildings) by the North Point pier?  Were there any reasons for the demolition of the housing project only to make the site a parking lot? 

Where / by whom did the First Hong Kong orphanage start?

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Tue, 2010-05-11 02:22

Folks,

A group of adult Hong Kong adoptees and I are organising an adoptee reunon in Hong Kong in Sept 2010 (www.caawr.com), so as part of our reunion I would love to understand the story behind the first Hong Kong orphanage, who started it, when and what brought it to past.

Katoomba, a house on 22 Magazine Gap Road

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Wed, 2010-05-05 10:30

Does anyone have anything, any info on the house called Katoomba, located on 22 Magazine Gap Road? I really want to know about it's first owner, and who owns it right now. This house has been in my childhood neighborhood for as long as I can remember. I lived at 17 Magazine Gap Road (also seeking old neighbors) with my family from 1974 - 1989. No. 17 was owned by my family from 1968 to 1990. No. 11 is still being owned by my best friend's family and No. 21 is also being owned by my Great Uncle.

A domestic and civic chapter

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Sat, 2010-05-01 21:34

This map pretty much describes who has influence over which bits of China during the last few years of the Qing Dynasty, after the Boxer Rebellion:



Britain leased the former Chinese naval base of Weihaiwei, opposite Port Arthur, "for as long as the Russians were in Port Arthur" - after the Japanese booted the Russians out of Port Arthur in 1905 this was amended to "for as long as the Japanese are in Port Arthur".

The political effects of a kung fu school...

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Sat, 2010-05-01 21:28
We now come to the Righteous Society of Harmonious Fists (if they sound like a kung fu school, that is indeed what they were)...

Largely thanks to four effective modernising Imperial Chinese civil servants Qing China did not collapse under the shock of the Opium Wars and the four great rebellions that they caused.

On the contrary, China recovered and started to moidernise in what is called the Tongxi Restoration (cf the Meiji Restoration in Japan).

The four were:

Li Hongshang,

Some more Governors, and more about Money..

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Sat, 2010-05-01 21:24
After the excitements of Sir John Bowring's time as Governor, his sucessor, Sir Hercules Robinson, was described by a British paper as having to "cleanse the Augean stables", which was of course one of the Labours of Hercules.

This Hercules added Kowloon to Hong Kong without much trouble, built Pokfulam reservoir (despite the rainfall, Hong Kong never has enough water) and set up Towngas, which supplies gas to the island to this very day.

The Rivals...

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Sat, 2010-05-01 21:21

Mention of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (in Hong Kong, just "the Bank") suggests to me that I should touch on this great rivalry, which really dates from the 1860s.

A Chapter on Banking: financial crises and an old magazine...

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Sat, 2010-05-01 21:17
Dent and Co came to a Bad End soon afterwards.

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