January 5, 1898.]
18th-Fatal kerosine accident at Nagasaki Mrs. Feldstein and nephew burnt to death, 21st-Third Gymkhana Meeting at Happy
Valley.
22nd-Death of Mr. Barnes Dallas, merchant,
of Shanghai.
24th- Fatal accident at a honse in conrse of
erection in Queen's Road West. 25th-New treaty between Holland and Japan
signed at The Hague. 26th-H.E. the Governor received a telegram from Secretary of State declining to interfere with the acquisition of Mount Austin Hotel by the military authorities, Conclusion of Bennertz case at Shanghai after 33 days' bearing.
30th-The ferry launch Guiding Star launched.
SEPTEMBER.
1st-Strike of engineers in the Straits. 2nd-Detective-Inspector Stanton dismissed from the Police Force for not reporting a gambling house. Naval Regatta of the British Fleet at Hakodate. 3rd-Victoria Recreation Club Aquatic Sports:
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1st day. The celebrated P. & O. blocked-up drain discovered.
4th-Victoria Recreation Club Aquatic Sports; concluding day.-Fire at No. 6, Tung Loy Lane..
6th-V.R.C. Aquatic Sports: distribution of
prizes by Mr. A. P. MacEwen. 9th-Arrival of Mr. Rounserelle Wildwan.
U.S. Consul at Hongkong. 16th--Mount Austin Hotel closed to the public.
Stone pier, Murray Road. opened to traffic. 17th-Heavy gale in Hongkong; very slight damage doue.-Typhoon at Hoihow; upwards of 250 lives lost.
18th-Jameson-Hooley Syndicate loan agree
ment signed at Shanghai.-Wife murder at 151, Praya West; the murderer escaped.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
8th Interport Cricket Match: Straits Settle. ments v. Hongkong.-Shanghai fired in in- terport shooting match and scored 860.-- Death of Mr. J. D. Humphreys in England. 9th-Interport Cricket Match: Straits Settle. ments v. Hongkong; Straits won by an in- nings and 79 runs.-A.D.C. performance of "A Pair of Spectacles" at the City Hall. 10th-Interport Cricket Matech: Straits Settle- ments v. Shanghai ; Straits won by an innings
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THE REBELLION IN THE PHILIP-
PINES.
A SPANISH OFFICER AND THE REBEL
LEADER INTERVIEWED.
CONDITIONS OF SURRENDER, The rebellion in the Philippines may now be considered at an end. The power of money has proved of greater service to the Spanish cause and eleven runs.
than all the regiments of soldiers stationed in 11th-Interport Cricket Match: Shanghai `v.
the islands, and to that power the rebel chiefs Hongkong-Hongkong fired in interport have surrendered and are now comfortably ens. shooting mateb and scored 916; Singapore conced in Hongkong, their followers being left won with 934.
to give up their arms and be forgiven for their 12th-Interport Cricket Match: Shanghai v.
past misdeeds. The natives are said to have Hongkong Hongkong won by one wicket.received the news of peace with acclamation, as Evening fête at the Cricket Ground.
they have been anxious for a long time to cease 13th-Interport Cricket Match: Straits Settle hostilities, but they did not quite know how to ments v. Shanghai and Hongkong.-Diuner do it with advantage, being either ignorant of to cricketers at City Hall. 14th-Double murder and attempted suicide in
how to approach the Government or in dread fear of the consequences of surrender. Shelley Street.-Germans took possession of Kinochau Bay, on the south coast of Shantung Promontory, as satisfaction for murder of two German priests on the 1st November. 15th-Interport Cricket Match Straits Settle- ments r. Shanghai and Hongkong; Straits won by an innings and 231 runs.- Dance at Government House in honour of cricketers. -Gang robbery and murder in Burd Street; six arrests made. 16th-Hongkong beat Straits Settlements and Shanghai by two goals to nil at Huppy Valley Gallant rescue from drowning by a soldier in the harbour.
17th-Volunteer concert at City Hall in houour
of cricketers.
18th-Outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Pokfulam Dairy Farm.-Visiting Cricketers left Hongkong.
20th- Taikoo Club bicycle tournament.
burnt to death.
19th-Steamer Arratoon Apear arrived in har-23rd-Fire at 64, Third Street; fifteen Chinese
bour after very rough passage from Singapore. 20th-Death, in England, of Mr. Edmund Sharp, formerly Crown Solicitor of Hongkong.
21st-Death of Mr. G. R. Lammert.-Earth-
quake at Kudat, Borneo. 22nd-Opening of the New Club.
27th-Suicide of Mr. W. K. Wylie, Superin
tendent Engineer of the Peak Tramway.— Fete at Government House in aid of East London poor.
28th-Fire at 122, Second Street.
There are at present thirty-five rebel chiefs in Hongkong, who were brought here in the steamer Uranus. Nine of them are staying at the Hongkong Hotel, and their names are Emilio Aquinaldo, who is the leader, Mariano Llanire, Autonio Montenegro, Vito Belarmino. Escolastico Viola, Luis Viola, Gregoris H. del Pilar, Manuel Fino, and Wenceslao Vinégra: They are all rather young, sparely built men if they had a very terrible mission in life. By of medium height, and certainly do not look as rising against the Government they have no doubt benefited themselves and all the other natives. They rebelled because of the animosity shown towards them by the priests. Individu- ally the priests are looked upon as being in- offensive, good men, but as a body their power was thought to be prejudicial to the interests of the natives. The rebellion, however, has had ing the power of the priests, and it is in that the effect, we believe, of considerably diminish-
respect that the natives, and perhaps the Spanish Government as well, will reap the advantage.
Accompanying the rebel chiefs were three well known Spanish officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Primo de Rivera. Major Antonio Pezzi, and Captain Celestino Espinosa. The first and
25th-Fourth Gymkhana Meeting at the Happy 29th-Death of M. Imbualt Huart, French Con- third named officers are A.D.C.'s to His Ex-
Valley.
27th-Opening of Messrs. Butterfield and.
Swire's new premises. Death of Lieut. Dawson, R.A., from smallpox. 30th-Murder of a sampan woman in the harbour.
OCTOBER.
1st-Gold standard adopted in Japan. 3rd-Fire on the Mongkut on her way to Bang
kok; damage serious. 4th-Douglas steamer Namoa wrecked outside north entrance to Haitan Straits; Eight Chinese lost.
7th--Annual meeting of the Hongkong Foot-
ball Club. 9th-Hongkong Volunteer Corps commenced annual week's encampment at Stonecutters. 16th-Violent storm on the Tonkin coast. 17th-Arrival of P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i- Hind after very rough passage from Singa- pore; all the boats swept away.-Fire at Shanghai; fifteen houses burnt.-Murder of
a man at Yaumati.
18th District-Inspector Howe, of the Irish Constabulary, took up his temporary duties as Acting Deputy Superintendent of the Hongkong Police Force. 21st-Royal Hongkong Golf Club entertained
H.E. the Governor at dinner.
25th-Opening of 1897-98 Session of the Legis.
lative Council,
27th-West Yorks "At home" on the Polo
Ground.
29th-Singapore fired in interport shooting
match and scored 934.
31st-Death of Mr. James Sampson, at Hong.
kong.
NOVEMBER.
1st Telegram received from Secretary of State directing Mr. Osmund's dismissal from the public service and the loss of pension. Murder of two German priests in Shantung. 4th-Committee of Singapore Chamber of Com- merce recommended adoption of gold cur- rency. Launch Elsie run into by ferry launch Morning Star and sunk in the harbour. 6th Fifth Gymkhana Meeting at Happy
Valley.
sul at Canton.
30th St. Andrew's Ball at the City Hall.-
Norwegian steamer Tunered sunk near Port Cockburn, Iriomoto Island. DECEMBER.
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1st-Fire at Stanley; five houses gutted. 3rd-Capture of Kiaochau City by the Germans. Philharmonic Society's concert at City Hall. 4th-Fatal Accident to Mr. Robert Torrence, chief engineer of the Honam.-Death of Mr. Thomas Campbell of the Hongkong Fire Brigade.
9th Annual Regatta. 10th Annual Regatta. - 11th-Presentation of Jubilee medals by H.E.
the Governor.
12th-Suicide of Captain Waddilove at Yoko-,
hama.
14th-Boxing tournament at the City Hall.-
Fall of a bouse in Hollywood Road; one girl
killed.
15th-Attack on Haiphong by bandits; M.
Gauthier killed. 16th-Engineers' dance at the City Hall.—- Arrival of the King of Siam at Bangkok on his return from a tour of Larope.
20th-Organ recital in St. John's Cathedral
by Mr. A. G. Ward, 21st-Royal Artillery sports at Happy Valley. --Lecture to Odd Volumes Society by
H.E. the Governor on Milton and Handel.
22nd-Fire at the Naval Yard. 23rd-Farewell concert at the City Hall by the Band of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Arrival of the round-the-world cyclists at Shanghai.
24th-Three men sentenced to death for murder in Burd Street.-Suicide of Mr. Obaldo Kluth, secretary and manager of Club Con- cordia, Shanghai.-Loss of the Japanese steamer Naramaru, on a hidden rock off the Pascadores; 73 lives lost.
26th-Arrival of the King's Own Royal Lan-
caster Regiment from Malta.
cellency the Governor General and Commander in Chief of the Philippines, who is their uncle, and Major Pezzi is the Chief Commissioner. Mr. John T. MacLeod, managing director of the Compania Maritima, of Manila, one of the best known men in the Philippines, also came with the party,
Taking advantage of the presence in the colony of these high officers and rebel chiefs a representative of the Daily Press paid a visit to the Hongkong Hotel for the purpose of interviewing Colonel Rivera and the rebel leader, Emilio Aquinaldo. The two men are totally dissimilar. Colonel Rivera is a tall, handsome man with a fresh complexion and" & moustache à la militaire, while Aquinaldo has
no hair on his sallow face, and the hair on his head is short, black, and stubbly. He appears to be a youngster of one and twenty and no more formidable looking than a dove. In reality his age is twenty-seven and he must possess considerable ability to have succeeded in maintaining the rebellion for so long a period.
There was no difficulty in finding Aquinaldo. All the servant boys knew him and his apart- ments, and they seemed to be quite accustomed to ta ting visitors to him. When our represen- tative entered a private sitting room Aquinaldo was busily engaged with a European tailor. A frock coat was just then claiming his attention and a polite request to interview the rebel chief disclosed the fact that none of the half dozen of is confrères in the room could speak English. Just then somebody told the tailor that the collar of the cost was trop bus. That was good enough. "You speak French ?" said our representative to the tailor's cr.tic. He did speak French and was good enough to do the Spanish inter- pretation. Monsieur Aquinaldo preferred not to say anything until the tailor had disposed of him, and we sat patiently watching the tailor etting out here and taking in there and ticking in pins with considerable professional skill and enthusiasm. At last the tailor was
finished and he departed on his way rejoicing. We then announced ourselves. Aquínaldo did
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