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Happy Valley.
30th--Two men attacked and robbed of $585 at
Samushuipo; no arrests.
APRIL.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND 11th--Discussion on smallpox and quarantine | 27th-Victoria Recreation Club's sports at
regulations, at Sanitary Board meeting.— West Yorkshire Regimental Sports.-Fire at 14, Cross Street. 13th-Suicide of Johannes Petersen, a German
- resident, àt Kowloon. 15th Fire at the Government Offices.- Mr. Lowder, Mrs. Carew's counsel, withdrew, in a letter, all charges he made against Miss | Jacob in the murder case and also apologised to Miss Jacob.
17th-Hongkong Race Meeting: 18th-Hongkong Race Meeting. 19th-Hongkong Race Meeting. 20th-Hongkong Race Meeting: Off Day.
"Les Cloches de Corneville presented by the Amateur Dramatic Club at City Hall. Armed robbery at 264, Queen's Road Cen. tral; six men caught.
21st Volunteer Church Parade Service in
Union Church.
22nd-Suicide of Captain Warl, R.M.L.I., ou
H.M.S. Grufton.
23rd-Sale of race ponies.-Annual meeting
and dinner at City Club, 26th-Masouic quadrille party at City Hall. 27th-Shooting match between Sergeants, West Yorkshire Regiment, and the Hongkong Volunteer Corps Volunteers won.
MARCH.
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1st-H.M.S. Spartan left for England, 5th-Farewell banquet given at the City Hall by the Chinese community to H.E: Wa Ting. fang, the 'hinese Minister to the United States, Spain. and Peru.--Lecture by Mr. | Granville Sharp at the City Hall on " Sipney : how to get it and how to keep it."-Death of Captain Croal, of Shanghai. 6th-Victoria English Schools sports at Happy Valley Fiual performance of Les Cloches de Corneville by, A.D.C. at City Hall. 7th-Fall of concrete blocks on the Praya;
one life lost.—Wreck of the Glamorganshire || on the Rosslyn reef, 30 miles from Cape St. James; passengers and crew saved, 9th-Lecture by His Excellency the Governor. Sir William Robinson, on the West India Islands.
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11th-Presentation of au address by Chinese community to H.E. Wu Ting-fang at "Idle. wild."
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12th-Hon. Dr. Ho Kai presented with an ad- dress and presentation plate by the Chinese community of Hongkong on the occasion of his departure for Shanghai. “ 13th-Hongkong Volunteer Corps 7-pr. and Maxim gun competitions at Wongueichung Gap.-H.E. Wu Ting-fang and Dr. Ho Kai
left by the Goelie to take up their positions in America and Shanghai respectively. 15th-Chui Kwai, a Christian from California. confessed to having cut his wife's throat in a Hongkong boarding house and to having packed her body in a trunk. 17th-Foochow Spring Race Meeting.-H.E.
Lo Feng Lo, Chinese Minister to London. passed through the colony on his way fo Eng
land.
18th-Foochow Spring Race Meeting. Lêc- ture by Mr. Francis, Q.C., on Captain Ma- han's book, The Influence of sea power on, history."-Fire on the Tacoma at Kobe; duin- age not serions.
5th-Strike of wheelbarrow men at Shanghai; rioting in the streets; bluejackets, volunteers, and firemen called ont. 7th-Great indignation meeting at Shanghai to protest against action of Municipal Council in submitting to when barrow coolies by tem- porarily withdrawing the tax. 8th-Anhud inspection of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps by Major-tieneral Black. 9th--Lecture by Dr. Clark to the Odi Volumes
The salt of the earth." Society on 10th-First Gymkhana Meeting. 12th-Sir Claude Macdonald. British Minister to Peking, arrived in Hongkong on his way to Canton on a tour of investigation. 14th-Lecture by Mr. J. J. Francis on
theory of British advocacy" to Odd Volumeş tennis match between Society, Lawn
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H.K.C.C. and L.R.C. 16th-Hongkong Rifle Association Meeting : first day.Dr. Fitel left Hongkong for Australia.
17th - Hongkong Rifle Association Meeting:
second day.
19th -Hongkong Rifle Association Meeting:
third day.
20th-Presentation of a congratulatory address to Sir! Claude MacDonald by Hongkong Branell of the China Association. 21st - Fire. at 99, Jervois Street; three meu suffocated.-Shanghai Conneil resigned in consequence of censure passed by an indigna- tion meeting of tepayers protesting against theclimbing down action taken in the coolie strike.-Fire.on the Belgie in thiɖ har- bour; damage confined to Chinese passengers' luggage and mafting.
22nd--Flow. F. A. Cooper, Director of Public Works, sat on the Sanitary Board for the last time, and the members passed a resolu- tion thanking him for his valuable services and wishing him every success in his new ap-' pointment at Colombo.
23rd-Lecture by Mr. W. C. Barlow to the Old Volumes Society, on John Stuart Blaçkie.
-Diamond Jubilee celebration. 24th-Complimentary dinner to Lion F. A Cooper given by the Hongkong Civil Service 25th-Fire at 95. Winglok Street. 26th Jubilee Permanent Memorial Committee devided to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by erecting a hospital for women and children and a training institute for nurses and commencing a road round the island.
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27th-Hon. T. Sercombe Smith complimented by the Chief Justice. Sir John Carrington and by Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., on behalf of the legal profession upon the way he had discharged his duties is Acting Puisne Judge. 28th-Presentation to Dr. Ayres, Colonial Sur- geon, by the Hongkong Police Force, on his retirement from the service. 29th-Mr. A.G. Wise, Puise Judge, returned
to the colony from leave of absence-Dr. { Ayres, Colonial Surgeon. left for England on retiring from the service.
MAY.
1st-Annual carbine competition, Hongkong.
Volunteer Corps: first day. 19th-Foochow Spring Race Meeting.-Messrs. 3rd-Arrival of Mrs Carew in Hongkong Gaol. | Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s waste silk mill4th-Concluding meeting of the Indian Famine at Shanghai totally destroyed by fire.—Armed robbers in Hongkong sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. 22nd-Organ recital by Mr. A. G. Ward at St. |
John's Cathedral.
23rd-The Centurion beat Kowloon at the Happy Valley in the final for the football shiel : com- petition.-Collapse of a house. 5. East Street; one man killed.
24th-Chui Kwai, a man who twice confessed to having murdered his wife in a Hongkong boarding house, found not guilty by a special jary at the Criminal Sessious. 25th-Annual meeting of the Hongkong Branch
of the China Association. 26th-Lecture by Mr. W. Machell, at the City -Hall on The Chinamau as a soldier."--Cap-
tain Vysyan. of the Glamorganshire, which | was wrecked near Cape St. James on the 7th March, exonerated from blame by the Marine Court of Inquiry.
Fund Committee; it was aunounced that the total amount subscribed in Hongkong was $50.719. 6th-Hongkong Sanitary Board passed a resolu- tion of thanks to Dr. Ayres for his services to the colony as Colonial Surgeon. 8th-Anal carbine competition. Hongkong
Volunteer Corps. concluding day. 14th-New by-laws approved by Sauitary Board. 15th-Second, Gymkhana Meeting. 20th-Interesting habeas corpuscase at Supreme
Court.
21st-Arson at 231. Queen's Road Central;
master arrested.
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25th-Dr. Noble thrown out of his trap on the
Shaukiwan Road.
28th--Wong Liu Tang sent to gaol for fifteen years for setting fire to his shop in Winglok Street.
29th--Sale announced of Mount Austin Hotel
to the Military Authorities for £30,000. 30th-Accident to Mr. Stanley Spencer, para- chutist at Bay View; the balloon burst and he sustained a broken leg.
31st--Presentation of certificates won at ex- amination held by local branch of the London College of Music,
JUNE.
2nd-Death in London of Mr. Ney Elias. 4th-West River opened.--Piracy on a junk in
the harbour; $180 worth of property stolen.~. Death of Mr. David Symington, the well known football player.
5th
Prize distribution and concert at head- quarters of Hongkong Volunteer Corps. | 9th-P. & O. steamer Aden wreeked on the
Socotra reef; 78 lives lost. 10th-Formation of Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Recreation Club,
2nd-Court Martial on Sergeant Fretter, West Yorkshire Regiment, for accepting a fee as canteen manager. Prisoner was found guilty and reduced to the rank of corporal. 24th-Queen's Birthday parade of troops at Happy Valley.-Accident to French mail steamer Sydney off Gutzlaff; homeward mail | from Hongkong delayed until 30th inst.
15th-Fire at 114, Jervois Street. 16th-Robbery of $314 from Victoria Recrea.
tion Club.
20th-Diamond Jubilee Thanksgiving Service
at St. John's Cathedral.
at the 21st-pening of the new ball room
Mount Anstiu Hotel.-Diamond Jubilee cele- brutions at Macao.
22nd-Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Hong-
kong.
23rd-Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Hong-
kong.
JULY.
24th-Diamond Jubiles celebration by British
community of Canton. 3rd-Death of Mr. J. M. Armstrong, 9th-Death of Mr. D. K. Sliman from drowning
at Swator. 10th-Diamond Jubilee Gynkhapa at Happy
Valley,
12th-Inspectors Stanton, Baker, Quincey, and Sergeant Holt suspended in connection with police scandal. They were afterwards dis- missed from the Force.-News received at Penang of the piracy on the steamer Pegu; captain and others murdered.
--Serious fire at a match factory at Shang-
hai. 19th-Inspector Witchell committed for trial on charges of neglect of duty and receiving bribes.
21st-Sixteen Chinese detectives arrested and
bauished from the colony. 22nd-Master of 231, Queen's Road Central
sent to gaol for five years for committing
arson.
26th-Opening of the new Hongkong Club, . 27th-Death of Mr. Happer, Commissioner of
Customs at Newchwang-Death of Captain Hector. s.s. Num Yong, at Singapore. 28th-Collapse of buildings at 248 and 250, Queen's Road West; two men killed, elegen injured.
30th-Collision off Batavia between Dutch steamer Speelman and French barque Dügues- clin; Captain and three men of steamer killed; others wounded.- Death of Li Hung- tsao, assistant grand secretary and president of the Board of civil appointments at Peking. distribution at Belilies Public 31st-Prize
School by Sir John Carrington, Chief Justice.
AUGUST,
3rd-Inspector Witchell found guilty at Cri- miual Sessions of accepting bribes from gambling house keepers; sentence, six months' imprisonment.
6th-Exutive Council beard charges of ac- cepting bribes against Mr. Osmund and Sanitary Inspector Hore. Osmund was called upon to retire on a pension and Hore was dis- missed, subject to the Secretary of State's approval.
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7th- -Death of Mr. H. R. Stay, chief officer of the P. and O. steamer Shanghai, while bath. ing in Hongkong harbour. 10th-Steamer Cheng Tye Ting lost in
typhoon 350 miles south of Moji; 21 lives lost. 13th-Arrival of the new French twin screw
mail steamer Lava. 15th-Death at Kobe of Mr. J. Greer Walsh,
of the firm of Walsh, Hall and Co. 17th-Death of Mr.Charles St. George Cleverly, formerly Surveyor-General of Hongkong.
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