Pedro Nolasco da Silva

Name: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China
Author: Pedro Nolasco da Silva

Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

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“Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China”, published in 1908, is a work by Pedro Nolasco da Silva. It explores elements such as Macao, Portuguese and Chinese.

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The town of Macao is built on hilly ground. There are two principal ranges of hills, one running from south to north and the other from east to west. The level ground is covered with many houses of European architecture, and a great number of Chinese shops for tradesmen and mechanics, called the Bazaar. On the lofty mount to the eastward is a fort, enclosing the hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Guia, and above it stands the oldest lighthouse on the coast of China. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The public and private buildings are gaily painted. The principal streets are lighted with electricity, the others with petroleum.
Owing to its being open to south-west breezes, Macao has lately become a retreat for invalids and business men from Hongkong and other adjacent ports. It contains three comfortable hotels—the Boa Vista, the Macao, and the Oriental. Two steamers run daily between Macao and Hongkong, and two between Macao and Canton. They enter the inner harbour, and moor alongside spacious wharves to land passengers and
cargo. Macao is also connected with Hongkong by telegraph. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The islands of Taipa and Colowane are dependencies of Macao, and are both garrisoned by Portuguese soldiers. On the island of Taipa there is a fortress, where resides the military commander of the two islands. The inhabitants are all fishermen. The garrison is composed of an infantry company of 1oo men, and of a battery of artillery of eighty men. All the officers and soldiers are Europeans. The Colony also has a force of military police, composed of two companies of 160 men each. One company is of European soldiers, and the other of Sepoys and Chinese. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The other important school for secondary instruction is the national Lyceum of Macao. It has only 20 students, but is supported by the Government and the municipality. The Central School of primary instruction for boys has 167 students. That for girls has 49 students. These schools are supported by the municipality. There is a college for female education, embracing primary and secondary instruction, under the direction of the Franciscan Sisters of Charity, all European. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The works of charity supported by this institution include a civil hospital for men and women, an asylum for invalids of both sexes, a house for lunatics, an asylum for orphan boys, the education of thirty orphan girls in the Italian Sisters of Charity's House of Beneficence, the provision of meals to poor people at a very low price, the supply of breakfast, tiffin, and shoes to poor students, medicines to poor patients, and meals to the destitute ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ Since 1896 the Portuguese population in Macao has decreased, whilst the Chinese population has increased. The Portuguese in the Far Eastern ports must have increased, but without a regular census no reliable data are available. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ The most important public work in progress at the present time is the reclamation of the foreshore on the west. When this project is completed there will be a spacious road round the west side of the town, from the Praya Grande to the inner harbour. A scheme for improving the harbour, also, is under consideration, but so far only a small section of the marginal road of the inner harbour has been extended. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ That brotherhood was extended to all the Portuguese colonial possessions. In Macao, the Holy House of Mercy was founded in 1569, by Don Belchior Carneiro, Bishop of Macao, who assumed its first providorship. From thence to the present time this institution has continued its meritorious work without interruption. According to the last account published, on May 27, 1907, the capital of the brotherhood, invested in properties, in loans, and in shares of different companies of Hongkong, amounted to $612,038. ”

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Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong… (1908)

“ Opium yields annually the sum of 180,360,000 reis, equivalent to $334,000, and represents 23 per cent, of the wliole revenue. The balance of revenue is derived chiefl from taxes on dwelling-houses, shops, and industrial establishments, from stamp duties (50 per cent of the revenue from Santa Caza lottery is received by the Government as stamp duty) , and from taxes on transmission of property, on swine slaughtered for consumption in Macao, and on imported fish. ”

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