January 8, 1896.]
19th Annual meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club.-Presentation to Mr. C. F. A. Sangster by the solicitors of the Supreme Court in recognition of his services in the Registry. 20th.-The British steamer Strathnevis, from Tacoma to Hongkong, broke hor tail shaft when seven days out; much anxiety caused by her not being heard of until the 9th Decem. ber, when a sailing ship reported that she was returning to Tacoma under sail.--French Vice- Consulate at Tonghing opened. 21st.-The Douglas steamer Thales stopped and searched by the Japanese man-of-war Yaye- yama between Formosa and Amoy; the Japa- nees Government afterwards apologised— Execution at Kucheng of fourteen of those implicated in the massacre.-Public meeting at Hongkong in connection with the Public Library.--Occupation of Anping by the
Japanese.
22nd.-Presentation to Mr. C. F. A. Sangster, Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, by the staff of the Registry, on his retirement. 23rd. Occupation of Tainanfu by the Japanese. 25th.-Death of Ma Pi-iu, Governor of Canton. 26th.-The Kucheng Commission returned to Foochow after an absence of seventy-four days. Address presented to Lieut.-Colonel Barrow, of the Hongkong Regiment, on his departure from the colony. 27th.--Six hundred coolies left Hongkong by the night steamer Powan for Canton to take part in an intended rising, which proved abortive. The British ship Avoca, from Cal- cutta to Boulogne, burnt at sea, near Sumatra. 28th.--Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting, first
day. Death of Prince Kitashirakawa Tainanfu.-Volunteer camp of exercise at| Stonecutters' Island closed. 29th. Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting, second day. Colonel Barrow, of the Hongkong Re- giulent, left for India to take up the appoint- ment of Assistant Adjutant-General at Rawalpindi.
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30th.-Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting, third day. Fire on the American ship Wandering Jew at Hongkong.
31st. Payment in London of the first instal. ment of the Chinese indemnity to Japan. Liu Yung-fu the Black Flag chief, arrived. at Canton from Formosa, whence he had fled incognito.
NOVEMBER.
2nd.--Coronation of His Highness Ibrahim,
Sultan of Johore. 3rd.--Reception by the Governor-General of Formosa at Tainanfu in honour of the birth- day of the Emperor of Japan.
4th. Arrival of the O. and O. steamer Belgic, after being aground near Yokohama.-Death of Mr. Louis Mendel.
5th. Treaty between Japan and Brazil signed
at Paris.
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Street.—Annual meeting and smoking con- cert of the Odd Volumes Society. 23rd.-Concert by the Hongkong Philharmonic
Society.
24th. The British ship Lillian J. Robbins towed into Saigon, having been dismasted in a typhoon on the 2nd November. 27th.-Death of Mr. Poon Pong.-Opening of the session of the Hongkong Legislative Council. 28th-Political emeute at Seoul. 29th-St. Andrew's Ball.-Hongkong fired in the Interport Shooting Match; score: Singa- pore 934, Shanghai 903, Hongkong 897.- Newchwang handed over by Japanese to Chi-
nese.
DECEMBER.
3rd.--The steamer Bonnington left Yokohama
for Moji; never afterwards heard of. 5th.-The Sasebo Docks opened.--Mr. Byron Brenan, the Consul at Canton, having been ap- pointed a special commissioner to inquire into the conditions of British trade in China and Japan, had an interview at Government House, Hongkong, with a number of gentlemen in- terested in trade.Meeting of Hongkong Legislative Council.
6th.-Issue of an Imperial decree sanctioning the constraction of a railway from Tientsin to Lokaw Bridge near Peking; also the con- struction of a line from Lokaw Bridge to Hankow if capital can be raised for it by Chinese merchants.
11th.-At Shangbai Capt. Winslowe, of H.M.S. Spartan, Lieut. Baker-Baker, and several sailors decorated with medals by Miss Jamie- son for services in II.M.8. Brisk at Witu, West Coast of Africa, in 1890. 12th.-Five hundred houses destroyed by fire in Saiouyimashi, Tokyo.. Hongkong Regatta. first day.
13th-Hongkong Regatta, second day. 14th.-Meeting of Hongkong Legislative Coun-
cil. Military Contribution discussed 15th. Arrival of the American Commission at Chengtu, to inquire as to the riots, after mak- ing the journey from Peking overland.- Dedication of the German Concession ut Tientsin.
16th.-Fire at 100, Praya West. 17th.-Fire at 247. Queen's Road Central. 18th.--Annual Meeting of the Hougkong
Benevolent Society.
22nd.-- Chinese public meeting to protest against
the light and pass regulations. 23rd.The Tung Wab Hospital committee wait upon the Governor, who suggested various improvements in the management of the Hospital and also spoke strongly about the allegation that the Chinese were subjected to class legislation.
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and followed off the grounds. The mob cani all the way to the Consulate, smashed in the door leading to the Commissioner's house, entered his ground, and broke some windows. Stones were also thrown into the Consulate grounds, and the back door of the Rev. W. Deans' was nearly smashed down. As soon as the howling was heard and the mob seen the ladies were hurried off to the Changho. The Customs staff was armed and kept the Customs quarters. A party of marines and bluejackets was landed from the Esk and marched to the Consulate. Through the energy of the Consul the officials were roused and the mob dispersed. Native soldiers were stationed all about the settlement. The ladies and children slept on board the steamer all night, while the gentlemen guarded the property on shore. Next day, although crowds collected, all was quiet and by the late afternoon the ladies returned home at the Consul's request. In the city the Church of Scotland Mission was threatened, but a guard of soldiers has been stationed at every chapel.
Good proclamations have been issued by the Heien, the Fu, and the Chintai. The officials are evidently doing all in their power to keep the peace. In another ten days the students all depart, so we look for quiet times again. We cannot be thankful enough a gunboat was in port, for it was nothing but the prompt landing of the man that dispersed the mob. If no gunboat had been here we would undoubt- edly, as on a previous occasion, have been houseless and wanderers. We give all praise to the Consul and Captain Barton for their prompt action, and tender thanks to the officers of the Changho for their kindness to our wives and children.
AN INTERVIEW WITH AN EYE-WITNESS,
Shanghai, 31st December. Through the courtesy of a passenger by the Yuentco who was an eye-witness of the unfor- tunate accident at Ichung, we have gained the following particulars.
On Saturday, 21st December, the sailors of H.M.S. Esk at midday held some athletic sports, comprising racing, jumping, boxing, etc., etc. The weather was all that could be wished and the sports were proceeding in a most satisfactory manner the whole of the European community was present, including all the ladies, and thous ands of Chinese enjoyed the proceedings as much as the foreigners.
While the various competitions were taking place a shooting gallery was largely patronised, open to all comers both foreign and native at a charge of five cents for ten shots, the weapon used being a Morris tube in one of the gunboat's rifles. The target which was eighteen inches square was erected at a distance of about fifty yards in front of a small wall, and undoubtedly for the safety of onlookers it was not sufficiently protected. At about 3 p.m. a Chinese employed on the gunboat Esk, a British subject, took the 29th.-Arrival of H.M.S. Grafton-Celebration rifle and fired at the target, but unfortunately
of the Jubilee of the frin of Messrs. Car-missing it he hit a native who was standing | lowitz & Co.
near, a high official in the Customs, one who was highly respected by foreigners and Chinese, and who spoke English fluently. The bullet penetrated the eye and death was instantaneous;
24th.-Fire at 7. Chik Chan Lane.
26th.-Performance by the Hongkong A.D.C.
of "Dandy Dick."
30th.-Fire at 38 and 40), Queen's Road West.
6th.-Banquet given to Sir Nicholas O'Conor at Tientsin on his retirement from the office of British Minister at Peking, having been appointed to St. Petersburg. 7th-Five ringleaders of the Kucheng massacre
executed at Foochow --Promenade concert in SERIOUS OUTBREAK AT ICHAN G. | had the bullet struck any other part in all pro-
aid of winter relief of the London poor, on the Volunteer Parade Ground, Hongkong. 8th-Convention for the retrocession of the Liaotung Peninsula to China by Japan signed at Peking.-Execution of three leaders of the abortive rising at Canton. 9th. Arrival at Yokohama of the U.S. cruiser
Olympia. 13th.-A boat belonging to H.M.S. Edgar cap sized at Chemulpo; forty-eight lives lost.- The Norwegian steamer Nanking wrecked near Chefoo. The Scottish Oriental steamer Taichow arrived at Singapore in tow, having broken her piston rod while on a voyage from Bangkok to Hongkong. 14th. Sir Nicholas O'Conor, the retiring Brit- ish Minister, had an interview with the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. 16th. The Japanese ship Inaho Maru wrecked
on a reef in Kelung harbour. 18th.-Armed robbery at 106, Praya West. 21st. Fire at 111, Praya West. 22nd. Secret society riots at Bangkok.--Col- lision at Woosung between the P. & O. steamer Rohilla and the blue funnel steamer Hector. -Armed robbery as 125, Wellingten
THE BRITISH CONSUL STONED.
Ichang, 23rd December.
A rather serious outbreak occurred here on Wednesday, the 18th, which luckily was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of the Consul in signalling to the Esk for a landing party and in dealing with the native officials. Wednes- day was to have been quite a gala day, as the men of the Eak were having sports on ground kindly granted by the Rev. H. Collins of the American Mission. The Ichang community was out in force as the day was fine. Crowds of Chinese were everywhere and everything seemed to be going along nicely when a sad oc- currence happened. Accidentally a weiyuan in the Customs was hit by a bullet from an air gun. Instantly all was commotion. The ladies were hurried home and the sports postponed. We had hopes the people would disperse quietly, but instead of doing so the sad event was used as a pretext to give veut to the spite and ill-will always existent in the breast of the students, literary and military. Soon there was a howl ing mob. The Consul and others were stoned
bability it would have had no effect.
After the catastrophe the crowd of natives immediately commenced to insult all foreigners and a riot seemed imminent and inevitable. A rumour was at once spread by the Chinese that the foreigners intended to kill a Chinaman as a fitting ending to the afternoon's sport, and the threats of the rabble increasing the foreigners as quickly as possible returned to their houses, which they reached without injury. About half an hour later the students, who had come down from the city, agitated for a riot, which they successfully carried out by smashing the win- dows of all the foreign houses. The gentleman who fared worst of all was Mr. Holland, the British Consul, who received a nasty wound on the cheek from a stone thrown at him. At this stage of the proceedings it was deemed advisable that the whole of the foreign population should take refuge on board the steamer Changwo, which was ready under steam to render assis tance, and though all that could be done was done it was pitiful to see the ladies and children making their way to the steamer. Within five minutes after all were safely on board a body of marines landed from the gunboat to protect