January 3, 1895.]
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
election in Japan; the Liberal party (Jin-to) gained a majority
celebrate the restoration of the Man Mo Temple.
branches to our business, the hire of a go- down for our products and raw materials, and the legal fees in connection with the most-2nd-Great Chinese procession at Hongkong to gage over our Hankow Road property. Our Insurance premium is also higher, because wo have the new mill and heavier stocks to protect. It will be apparent to you that the value set against house and landed properties, plant, and furniture is less this year than last. This difference arises
works, as the from the sale of the match
costs in this connection have been eliminated. I think these are all the ex- planations I can afford you about the accounts, but if there is any further information I can give I shall be happy to do so. As no one had any questions to ask he then proposed: That the accounts as printed and published be passed. This was seconded by Mr. H. J. Sucă and carried unanimously.
It was then proposed by Mr. W. G. MOORE and seconded by Mr. M. WOLFr that Mr. J. D. | Thorburn be re-elected as a director for the current year.
Passed unanimously.
Mr. THORBURN then proposed and Mr. H. J. SUCH seconded that Mr. Wilmer Harris ha re-elected as auditor for the current year and that his remuneration be as before Tls. 200.-
This finished the general business of the meeting.
Mr. MOORE made a few remarks as to the in debtedness of shareholders to Messrs. Arbuthnot and Thorburn for the present position of the company, which was responded to by Mr. THOR-
3rd-Continuation of the Chinese procession at
Hongkong; procession of illuminated sam pans in the eraning. 4th-Continuation of the Chinese procession at
Hongkong.
Interport Rifle Match, Hongkong making 823 and Singapore 817. Shanghai fired on the 4th May and made 760.
25th-Lawn Tennis match between Canton
and Hongkong; Canton won the double and one single, and Hongkong one single. The British ship Drumeltan stranded on Naganoshima, subsequently towed off by s number of British men-of-war.
30th Fire in Queen's Road Central, Hongkong
six houses destroyed.-Shangbai Races, first day Hon. G. T. M. O'Brien, Colonial Sec- retary and Acting Governor, left Hong- kong-General Barker appointed Acting Goveruor.
7th-Meeting of Hongkoue Legislative Conusil; decided to send a telegram of congratulation to the Emperor and Empress of Japan on the occasion of the celebration of their silver wed- ding; Bills to amend the Jury law and the Po Leung Kuk Ordinance read a first time. - The Bin Funnel steamer Tantalus struck ou 1st-Shanghai Races, second day. a reef off Table Island while making Hong-2nd-Shanghai Races, third day. kong from the North; got off on the 9th, con- siderably damaged.
8th-The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.'s tug Pilot Fish wrecked off Tum To while going out to the assistance of the stranded steamer Tantalus].
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9th-Silver wedding of the Emperor and Em-
press of Japan.
10––Fastion fights in Chinatown, Hongkong. 14th-Hongkong Schools Athletic Sports, first
day! 15th-Meeting of Hongkong legislative Coun-
cil;
motion for granting of exchange .compen- sation negatived; appointtuent of a Retrench. ment Committee announced; Bills for the Amendment of the Po Leung Kuk Ordinance and Jury Ordinance possed.--Hongkong Schools Athletic Sports, second day. 17th-New treaty between China and the
United States signed at Washington. 19th-Abiloolah Khan, a private of the Hong. LOCAL AND DISTRICT EVENTS, kong Regiment, sentenced to death by the
BURN.
The meeting then adjourned, with a vote of thanks to the chairman-Mercury.
1894,
JANUARY.
lat-Volunteer field day at Hongkong. 8th-Hon. C. P. Chatør re-elected a Member of the Hongkong Legislative Council by the Justices of the Peace.
9th-Fire in First Street. Hongkong, in which
sick man was burnt to death. Mobilization of the Hongkong Garrison. 15th-Great fire at Soochow; 1,500 houses burnt. 18th-A committee of the tongkong Chamber of Commerce report in favour of a British dollar-A private of the Hongkong Regiment shot a havildar, who subsequently died.
· 19th-Eight coolies killed by a fall of earth on
Bonham Road, Hongkong. 24th-At a special meeting of the Shanghail
Branch of the China Association a resolution was passed deprecating the appointment of Mr. W. V. Drummond as Acting Crown Ad- vecute.
25th-Prize day at Victoria College.—A Burns dinner bold at Kobe to inaugurate a St. An- drew's Society.
26th-Prize day at the Diocesan School.. S0th--Annual meeting and dinner of the Shang-
hai Branch of the China Association.
FEBRUARY.
6th--Fire in a fire cracker shop, Queen's Road West, Hongkong; thirteen men and one girl burnt to death-East Point Athletic Sports. 7th-Departure of H.E. Senhor Borja,, the retiring Governor of Macao. An unknown steamer supposed to be the St. Asaph sunk by collision with the steamer Hungchow, off Breaker Point, and all hands lost. 9th-New Custom-House at Shanghai opened. 14th-Fire at No. 28, Station Street, in which
two children were burnt to death. 18th-Senhor Jono Antonio de Brisgao das Novea Ferreira elected Deputy for Macao in the Portuguese Cortes. 19th-Marine Court of Inquiry with reference
to the collision between the steamer Hangchow * and an unknown steamer supposed to be the St. Asaph-The M. M. steamer Saigon, engaged on the Tonkin branch line, went ashore on the rocks near Poulo-Cambir, and became a total wreck.
22nd- Hongkong Race Meeting, first day. 23rd-Hongkong Race Meeting, second day. 24th-Hongkong Race Meeting, third day. 26th-Masonic Ball at Hongkong.
MARCH. Ist-Debate at the Sanitary Board on a motion as introduced by Mr. J. D. Humphreya reoom- mending the reconstitution of the Board on a popular basis; motion negatived-Gapers
Supreme Court for the murder of Noor Mahomed, a bavilaar of the Regiment. Intel ligence received By telegram of the death at Bombay of Mr Solomon David Sassoon. 22nd-Arrival of Captain de Sonza Horta
Costa, the now Governor of Macao.-Meeting of Singapore Chamber of Commerce decided" in favour of united action with Hongkong with reference to the proposal for a British dollar
24th-aster meeting of Hongkong Rift, As- 25th-Easter meeting of Hongkong Rife As-
sociation, first day.
sociation, second day.
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MAY.
3rd Prize day at Victoria English Schools.
Lawn Tennis match between the Hongkong Cricket Club and the Ladies' Recreation Club, won by the Cricket Club. 4th-The laying of the cable between Labuan
and Hongkong completed. 9th--Distribution of Belilios prizes at Govern-
ment House.
10th-Hongkong declared infected with plague. 11th-Annual meeting of the Hongkong Gen- eral Chamber of Commerce-Collision be- tween the steamers Miike Maru and Mon- mouthshire near the Tungsha lightship; both vessels damaged.
12th-Presentation by Chinese merchants
Hon. T. H. Whitehead, on the occasion of his departure from the colony on leave.. 14th-Earthquake shock at Tientsin. 15th-Sir William and Lady Robinson
turned from Japan.
19th-The Italian Minister to Peking received in audience by the Emperor in the Cheng Kwan Hall.
21st-Total loss of the German steamer Alwine Seyd off Barren Isands, while on a voyage from. Newchwang to A moy.
22nd-Deputation to the Governor praying that the house to house visitation in connection with the plague might cease. 23rd-Departure of Hon. T. H. Whitehead on
leave.
25th-Celebration of the Queen's Birthday.
26th Annual Carbine Competition of Hong- kong Volunteer Corps. Great conflagration at Yamagata; 1,202 houses, destroyed and thirteen lives lost.
26th-Easter meting of Hongkong Rif As27th-Departure of the Moyune, the first tea
sociation, third day,
steamer of the season, from Hankow
Revenue oruiser Likin, and a boat's crew drowned while engaged in buoying work of Hainan Head:
27th-Social tea and meeting at Union Church | 31st-Mr. Chappell, first officer of the Customs 28th-Assassination of the Korean political to bid farewell to the Rey, G. H. Bondfield.
refugee Kim Ok Kiun at Shanghai. 30th Collision at Shanghai. between the steamers Oxus and Glenavon ; damare slight. 31st-Living chess tournament at East Point on behalf of the Union Church organ fund.
APRIL
1st-Corporal A. W. Jiuks killed in a scuffle
with bar boys at the hongkong Hotel. 3rd-Two thousand houses destroyed by fire at
Tungkadoo, Shanghai.
4th-Fire in Bonham Straud. Hongkong; several houses turut. Tennis match between Meaden and Wallace, the longkong and Canton cham- pions, resulted in a draw. -Departure of H.M.S. Imperieuse for bome. 5th-Abdoolah Khan, a private of the Hongkong Regiment, executed for the murder of a ha- vildar of the same regiment. 7th-Hongkong Polo Club's Sky Meeting. 9th-Horse, dog, and poultry show at Shanghai, 11th-Outbreak of rinderpest at Hongkong. 12th-Meeting of Hongkong Legislative Coun- cil; Bill for the amendment of the Prepared Opium Ordinance introduced, 14th-Laying of the cable between Sin poré and Labuan completed Departures of the troopship Tumar from Hongkong with time'ex- pired men.—Inspection of Shanghai Volunteer Corps by Lieut. Colonel Jerrard, D.A.A.G. 16th-Meeting of Hongkong Legislative Coun
cil; the Bilf for the amendment of the Prepared Opium Ordinance passed, after the Opium Farmer had been heard by Counsel. 19th-The Japanese steamer Nippon Maru
wrecked off Ayler Bay
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20th Freshet in the Han River did consider-
able damage at Hanyang. 21st-Arrival at Hongkong of H.M.S. Centurion,
the new flagship of the China station. 24th-Hongkong and Singapore fired in the
JUNE.
2nd-The Japanese dionse of Representatives dissolved.-Death of Mr. W. Bevan from frag- ture of the skall caused by a fall.—The Brit- ish steamer Windsor, from Iloilo to Delaware Breakwater, went ashore on the Zub Botalis Reef; got off after jettisoning cargo. 3rd-A piece goods shop in Jervois Street burnt.
-Korea's appeal for Chinese troops to sup. press the Tonghak Rebellion acceded to. 4th-Death of Mr. Hugh Fraser, British Min. ister to Japan-Death of Captain Vesey of the Shropshire Light Infantry, who had con- tracted the plague while in charge of one of the parties engaged in house to house visita. tion and cleansing work. Japan's representa- live at Seoul notified of the intended despatch of Chinese troops to Korea, 5th-Funeral of Captain Vesey. 6th-China and Japan begin to send troops
Korea,
7th-Deaths from plagne in Hongkong for twenty-four hours 107, the greatest number recorded in one day during the epidemiol 9th-Mr. A. McConachis elected by the Hong-
kong Chamber of Commerce to represent the' Chamber in the Legislative Council during the absence of the Hon. T. H. Whitehead. 10th-Dedication of the Bokhara Memorial
Window in St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong 11th-Meeting of Hongkong Legislative Conn- cil; Ordinance to ratify the Sanitary Board's Plague By-laws passed.-Two female medical missionaries, Dr. Halverson and Dr. Bigler, mobbed at Honam, Canton. 12th-Korean rebels defeated by Chinese and
Korean troops. 13th-Phra Yot, the Siamese mandarin accused of having been responsible for an attack on a
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