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- CHRONOLOGY OF THE YEAR
1922.
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FEQRUARY.
1-Extraordinary general meeting of
Hongkong Hotel
shareholders
authorises increase of capital from $8,500,000 to $5,000,000. "..
-Lecture in "Chines Philosophy" by
Mr. Kuo Ping Ho #--Kowloon' motor bus on fire. Extin-
guishers to be fitted in future. Enthusiasm for "Ma Cheuk in Hong-
kong noted.
6-Death of Sir Henry May, O.C.M.C.
at Clate, Suffolk,
-Death of the Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp,
K.C., O.BE.. (LL.D.
Annual meeting of Union Church seat-
holders.
0-Hamburg-Amerika m.v.
Haveliand
arrives the first German vessel since the war to enter the Port.
10-Death of Mr» C. Farebrother Mason,
solicitor.
Engineers and Shipbuilders' Institu
tion Ball.
Automobile Association considers tha
price of petrok “
Expres traia to, Canton held-up by 100
armed men in Chinese territory.. 11-Trial trip of the new Hongkong
Hotel motor conches
13. Tea Godown burned out in Canton
Road, Kowloon
14-Extraordinary general meeting of the
Dairy Farm Company. Capital in-
Creased and amalgamation with Mers Lane, Crawford & Co. no- minced.
30-Memorial Service at the Cathedral
to the late Sir Henry May Tributo at the Legislative Council. Cost of Water discussed at Ucion
Waterboat Co.'s annual meeting.
17. Arrival of the transport Dufferin,
bringing the 102nd K.E.O. Grenadi
era.
18-Annual meeting of shareholders of
the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation. China's geod of Peace, Military Retrenchment and Administrative Reform." 20.-Hongkong Jockey Club, Annual Race
meeting opened." " -
21.The Race Meeting. Mr. Birkett's
Sunstar wins the Derby. 29.-Third Day of the Race Meeting. Mr.
Fill, on Allied King, wins the Ladies' "Purse and the Champion Stakes." 24.-Death of Sir Ellis Kadoorie, a great
benefactor of the Colony,
Welding of Mr. H. L. Dennys, soli-
citor, to Miss Clarks of Taipe. Cuinese stevedore murdered on the
Praya, near Statue Pier.
25-Last day of the Race Meeting.
APRIL
THE - HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER SOCH, 1922,
1-Royal Hongkong Yacht Club's clos
Ang Cruise.
Middleweight Championship decided at
the Boxing Association meeting. 4-Launch of the oil tanker. Planorbis
ät Kowloon Dook. 6-Arrival in Hongkong of H.B.E the Prince of Wales on board H.M.S. Renown Presentation of addresses in the. Special Pavilion Reception of Ex-Service men. Prince parti- pipates in Polo match. Official Banquet, Fish Procession and the Illuminations.
7.The Prince's second day in Hong
kong: Inspection of Troops; Stono laying of St. Stephen's Girls' College; University degree conferred upon the Prince; a Masonic Cere mony; The Royal Gymkhana; Chinese Banquet to the Prince: The Com-. munity Ball
Rockefeller Foundation's Endowment
announced of $600,000 for Chairs, in Medicine and Surgery at Hongkong University.
8.The Prince pays an early morning
visit to Kowloon and buys Chinese Souvenirs: Departure of the Renown for Japan
Farewell at the Volunteer H.Q. to Lieut-Quarter-Master Highy after 18 years with the Defence Corps. Hints issued of an increase in tele phone charges and possible installa tion of the automatic system. -Considerable, increase of plague
cases reported.
Death of Sir Patrick Manson, G.C.M.G.,
F.R.S.; M.D., etc., etc., announced. A distinguished investigator of the malarial mosquito (formerly practis ing in Hongkong). 11.-Death of Mrs. Arathoon Seth, an old
resident of the Colony,
Royal Artillery Athletic meeting at
Kowloon...
12-Departure from Hongkong of H.M.S.
Alacrity, victim of the Geddes Axe."
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-Inter-school Sports No mora pob
hunting."
Annual meeting of the Victoria Recre
ation Club. The Hon. Mr. Claud Sovora on
chita Judgment given in an important cigar
trade-mark action,
6.-E.E. Dr. Wellington Too passes
through Hongkong and takes tiffi with HE the Governor. Appointment of Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson to the China Command an nounced.
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"A Chinese syndicate buys Messes, Alex. Rem & Co.'s old premises. The Oriental Bank to be built. Hongkong Hotel's acquisition of a con- trolling interest in Shanghai Hotels, Ltd announced.
The late Hon. Mr. Laa Cha Pak's funeral: impressive rites attended by a huge concourse of people. Volunteers' Annua) Rifle meeting con-
cluded.
Proposal for a tramway in Kowloon
announced
Dr. Francis Clark, a former M.0.H, in Hongkong lectures to University medical students.
Officer and two others injured on H.MS. Cairo through the accidental discharge of a gun.
9-A case of rinderpest reported.
The 1914 epidemic was three times Number of plague cases, to date, 636.
greater, says the M.O.E. 16-Air mail service for the Far East
adumbrated.
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Arrival of the s.. Kutsang, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s fine new Vessel [11.-The Hon. Sir Paul Chater offers
850,000 to endow a Union Church for Kowloon Difficulties as to a sitë. Proposal to form a Hongkong Shipping
Association announced.
Annual Tennis Tournament concinded. 12-Sir Paul Chater announces that
Meeting of local depositors in the
Barque Industriell de Chine to-Kowloon "consider proposals of the French
Judicial Administrator.
Kowloon Rowling Green Club vetoes. the admission of women.
Fire on the s.s. Ar in Kowloon Bay. 17. Charity Ball in the Prince's Pavilion.
Men Filled in à landslide at Mau- Lau-kok.
19.-Girl Guides give a farewell display
before Lady Stabbe
Mui Tsai's Charter of Liberty' ig.
sued by Hongkong Government. 20.-Lady Stubbs and children leave for
home by the Auchists. Departure on retirement of Mr. T. W. Robertson, supt.-engineer of the
Wharf and Godown Co. and Star "Ferry Co.
Annual meeting of the General Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Annual Inspection of the Volunteers by H.E the General Officer Com- manding...
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Boxing Association meeting. Feather-1-Agreement reached in the lighter-
weight belt goes to Chadwick. 27.-Fire tobacco godowna destroyed by a
fire at West Paint.
Land Coronation. 'Road, Kowloon (upset price $29,400) sold for 868,000. 26.-Vessels in harbour dress ship" in honour of the wedding of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Hongkong St. George's Society sends good wishes, "
MAROH.
1-Roup of Race pontes Highest price
realised: $1,050 for Hongkong Chief. Annual Exhibition of the Horticul tural Society.
3.-Death of Mr. A. H. Crew, solicitor.
Special constables £red upon by armed
robbers at Homuntin... 4.-Death of Mr. Frank Maitland. 5.-Indian Clerk in the Police Depart- inent eentenced for defrauding the Government;
*7.—Ammull meeting of the British
Legion.
8-Annual meeting of the Y. W.C.A. 11-Visit to Hongkong of the US Minis
ter to Chisa
Indications of the beginning of a
plague épidemić discussed by the Sanitary Board. Overcrowding pro- blem hampers preventive cleansing of houseo.
18. Two Dennis pateat turbine fire
engines arrive for the Fire Brigade. Ex-Service Men's Association, Dinner, Mr. Mackintosh calls for a social
earthquake."
22-Scheme for the abolition of Mur Tsai
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men's dispute, Understanding announced between the P&O., Messageries Maritimes and N.Y. E. to make mail despatch more regular
Death of Mr. W. C. D. Turner of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, at Amoy.
"Annual meeting of the St. George's
Society. Mr. R. H. D. Hancock elected Chairmfo,
22Seventy-seven cases of plugue―30
fatal during the week. Queen's College Old Boys' Asauciation
Annual Dinner.
Ex-Service 31ni's Association gives .a fancy dress masked ball in the Prince's Pavilion.
23.-Fire in the M.B.E. alyard,
Yaumati
Mob demonstrations against the police
in Yaumati
Trouble in Canton. Strained relations between "President Sun Yat Sen and Governor Chen Chiung Ming. 4.-Dr. Wu Wien Teh, Director of the Manchurian Plague Prevention Ser- vice lectures to University medical" students од "The
Manchurian Plague of 1020," 25.-Annual meeting of the Constitutional
Reform Association. Annual meeting of the local auxiliary!
of the Bible Society. 20.-Capt. E. R. G. R. Evans, C.B., gives
his War lecture The Dover Patrol at. Taikoo, Ex-Active Service Men's Association. discusses (with favour) the project of a Club and (with disfavour) having its own" Company in tha Volunteers.
Laundrymen granted a 30 per cent, in- crease of wages, and stevedores 221 per cent.
announced in the House of Commons, Annual meeting of the Kowloon Real- dente' Association, Housing, trams, 'buses, the hospital, recreation and 28.-Annual meeting of the Institution of the servant problem discussed.
#Engineers and Shipbuilders. Hongkong's Electoral Reform Petition 9.-Plague opidemię stated to be increas
presented in the House of Commons.
ing in severity. 23-Full programme for the visit of
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales an nounced. Ordinance passed permitting solicitors to act as barristers, owing to ten- porary dearth of barristers. First annual meeting of the Anti-Mni Tani Society. "A spirit of victory"! animated the proceedings, 48-Peak Residents' Association formed. The strike and the servant question discussed....
-Retirement and departure for home of Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Orown Boliciter.
Completion of the Hongkong and
Bhanghai Bank-Annicze. ~~~ 31-Intimations of a recrudescence of strikes. Tramwaymen, launchmen, stevedores, tally clerks and native araft lighterman threatening to stop work
Fire on the B-1. as Japan at Kow.
loon Wharf. Serious damago,"
Twentieth annual athletic meeting of
the Victoria Recreation Club. Local train on the Canton section of the railway robbed and 30 passengers held to ransom. 20.-Twentieth anniversary of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and extension at Taumati announced. European Y.M.C.A. for Kowloon also contemplated.
MAY. 1.-Retirement from public life of Mr. Ho Kom Tong. Address by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak. House collapse in Gage Street... One
killed and three injured. 3-Death of the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-Pak,|
serior Chinese Unoticial member of the Legislative Council. 4-The oil tanker Picodon launched at
Kowloon Dock for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co
Settlement in the dispute with the tally ⚫clerks.
Chief officer of the s.s. Finshan stab
bed; Outcome of the recent Inbour "troubles
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be-
$50,000 will be held on trust for the British Legion and the Ex-Active Service Men's Association, to comme- morate the Prince's visit; the in- come to be divided between them. 13-Inangaration of the new Club
Lusitano in Icehouse Street,
residenta indignant cause the police arrest their children. and their amabs. "Street obstruc- tion" alleged " 15.-Labour Guild demonstration against the deportation from Hongkong of Chan Ping Sang, a leader of the Seamon's Strike, sentenced twelve years' imprisonment in Canton For murdering his wife and afterwards pardoned by Sun Yat Sen. 16-Chan Ping Sang deported.
Launchmen present an ultimatum, and
threaten to strike in 48 hours. H.E. the Governor present war medals to members of the 102nd K.RO. Grenadiers.
17-The Marques of Bute passes through
Hongkong.
The Seamen's Union appeals to the Shipowners Committee regarding the deportation of Chan Ping, Sang. Another strike threatened, But the agitation dies down, - 18-Departure on retirement of Capt. T. A. Mitchell, for 30 years with the Indo-China S.N. Co
19-Chinese firm in Connaught Road
Over $400,000 stolen from the. Koko-
hama Specie Bank in Hongkong. Indication of a "ring" of speculators
at a land sale,
Sanitary Board discusies" seawater, bath-water, or the mains for flushing, 7-Donature of Commodore and Mrs
Bowden Smith. 6-Legislative Council Statement by the Government re telephones The Renta Ordinanse renewed. -Mrs. Blake, of the Wyndham Hotel, robbed in Wyndham Street. Thief fires on pursing Europeans and
escopes.
12.—Mr. F. A. da Silva, of the E. "E:
Telegraph Co., saves t would-bo ,suteide, in the harbour.
Sun Yatsen threatens General Chen Chiung Ming at a meeting of Canton journalista
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Auction sale of the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie's Hongkong estates pro duces nearly $250,000
Ewo War Memorial unveiled by Mr.
D. G. M. Bernard, 15.-Departure of H.E. the Governor for
Home on holiday. Hon. Mr. Claud Severn to minister the Government.
16.-Legislative Council votes. 893,000
towards strike expenses.
An axplanation of the Telephone Com.
pany's claims promised.
Sun Yat-sen takes refuge on a warship
from General Chen Chiung-ming. Canton bombarded by Sun Yat-sen's
orders Extraordinary meeting of the Victoria Recreation Club rejects a proposed cash coupon system. "Departure on retirement of Mr. W.
Budgo, China Navigation Company, after 32 years in the Far East. 17-Bombardment of Canton resumed.
New Engma" Club inaugurated in
Hongkong.
Two bathing fatalities. Boy Scout and
sailer drowned. The plague epidemic abating. 18.-Water supplies restricted in Horg- kong and Kowloon. Kowloon Reser- voir "very low.". Rainfall far below the average.
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19--Telephone Agreement referred to a
Special Committee. 20-St. David's Society formed." 29-Shanghai defeat Hongkong in Inter-
port Polo, at Shanghai, 23-Death of HE. Dr. Wu Ting-fang;
China's "Grand Old Man." 27.The Hon. Mr. Claud Severnon "drafting into the Volunteers." Fire on the O.S.K. 6.3. Peking Maru. Public invited to inspect the Epra, the.
"B-I." Dew vessel.
Attempted Lightning Robbery, with
arms, at the Sun Co.'s store. Memorial service in St. John's Cathe
dral to Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, nanginated in London.
27-Mr. C. G. Alabaster retires from the
Penang Will Case after a passage with the Chief Justice. 20-The Rherenor, "the largest ship built in Hongkong or China," launch- ed at Taikoo Dockyard. 30.-The 8.8. Linom and ss. Wing"On
collide in the harbour.
Central robbed of $40,000 by robbers disguised as policemen, Launchmen call a strike. Star Ferries.
manned by naval ratings. Launch-owners organise an emergency
service.
Death of Mr. J. K. C. McCorquodale
of the Chips Sugar Refinery. 21. Abortive efforts to arrange meetings with the strikers. Men's delegates gone to Canton Nine-new-demands issued by "the men.
Non-union men offering for work. 23-Sanitary Board discusses
traction.
JULY.
3.-Banque Industrielle winding-up peti- tion adjourned for another six months
Mr. Parker Ness states the Company's
views of the Telephone question. 4-Water carriage system authorised for
the Peak.
6-Ex-Active Servico Men's Association discusses qualifications for member-
ship.. motor.
24-Empire. Day. Services at St. John's
and the Roman Catholic Cathedral. House of Commons discusses the case
of Commander Haslewood. 23-Consecration at the Roman Catholic
Cathedral of Father Gautier, ap pointed Bishop of Kwang Chow Wan. 25.--Riotous assembly in Macao. 29-Portuguese soldiers fire on the
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crowd: 34 killed and 37 wounded. Settlement reached in the Hongkong
launchmen's strike. Men's nine de mande dropped.. Filty per cont, in- create on wages.up to 810 a month. 30.-Rice Coolies' lightning strike.
Telephone Company, announces in.
creased rates from July 1st. General Strike of Labour at Macao follows upon the shooting into a riotous crowd the previous day. 31-Arrival of the magnificent C.P.S.
liner Empress of Canada,
⚫ Chinese celebrate the Dragon Boat
Festival.
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1-Bill to extend the Rents Ordinahco
introduced into the Legislative Coun.
cil.
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The Hon. Mr. A. A Lowe queries the Telephone Company's proposed in- creased rates.
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Vacation Schools for poor children pro-
moted by the Chinese Y.M. CA, Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., Ltd., acquire a controlling interest in Mesers. William Powell, Ltd. 8.--An extra gymkhana by the Jockey
Club..
Bathing party of ladies has a narrow escape from drowning at Island Bay. 10.-Canton situation critical. Fighting and bombardment. Railway service Buspended. The 6.8. Hoi Sang fired upon in Canton
river.
University Corneil formally accepts the Rockefeller Foundation Benefac tion, 11.-Government intervene in regard to the threatened closing of the Peak Hospital 12-Great waterworks scheme announced. "Water from Taimoshan mountain to be brought across the harbour" by pipe-line. --
Typhoon passes very near the Colony. Wind velocity of 89 mph expori- enced.
14-European lady robbed in Kennedy
Road.
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15-Corporal F. Goodman, Hongkong ...Volunteers, wins the Alexandra Com
petition at "Bisley. Shooting outrage on the Prays. Bro ther of General Chen Chiung-ming murdered, 10-Memorial". service. at St. Paul's Church to Dr. Wu Ting-fang (who was educated at St. Paul's School). 18-Annual ・meeting of the Alice
Memorial Hospital. 10-Floating mine explodes near the
U.S.S., Tracy in Canton river. Bridge tournament at the Peak Club
in aid of the MCL.
Signs of an impending water shortage. Only 650 million gallons in, storage with 2,000 million as compared gallons last yeûr. · 2-Arrival of Mosers. Jardino, Mathe- son & Co's new steamer, the Horang. Bar Ferry Co. resumes the full scr- 'vice after the strike. End of a period of great public inconvenience, Hongkong schoolboy held to: ransom..
Unusual Police Court story, -King's Birthday Celebrations. Re
view of Troopa by H.E. the Governor, 20 Gymkhana in the afternoon and re- ception and ball at Goverzinant House Birthday bonours: 'C.M.G.. for Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher and eme intended for Mr. Lan Chu-pat had| hd survived. ".
U.S. visitor held up by an armed
robber in Kowloon.
Quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang's review Expiration of the
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