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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
date.-Sir Claude and Lady MacDonald | 24th-Second gymkhana meeting of the season departed from Tokyo on leave.
JUNE.
2nd-International fight in the Taku Road, Tientsin; one British and five French were wounded, and two Germans killed. 3rd-Plague cases at Hongkong for the year over 1,000; 13 European cases and 5 deaths. -Judgment delivered in the Hangchow. Glengyle collision case. 5th-General Chaffee
relieved General
McArthur in the Philippines. 6th-Arrival of H.M.S. Talbot. 7th-Plague case at Shanghai, imported from
Hongkong.
8th-New Volunteer shooting range opened at
Causeway Bay by H. E. the Governor. 10th-Annual dinner of the Shanghai branch of the China Association, at which Admiral Seymour replied for the Navy. 11th-Count von Waldersee received in audi-
ence by the Emperor of Japan at Tokyo. 15th-Fatal collapse in High Street, Hong.
kong; three Chinese killed. 21st-Charge against Inspector Crisp dis-
charged in the Supreme Court. 23rd-Ottoman Mission to China left Shanghai
unsuccessful.
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27th-Imperal edict against the import of arms. 30th-First enquiry into the Cochrane Street
collapse,
31st- Private Chair and Ricksha Coolies
Commission appointed at Hongkong.
SEPTEMBER
3rd-Annual general meeting of the Hong-
kong St. Andrew's Society. 4th-Prince Chun received in audience by the
German Emperor at Berlin. 5th-V.R.C. Aquatic Sports.-Departure on
leave of the Hon. F H. May. 7th-News of the attack on President McKinley received in Hongkong.-Peace Protocol signed at Peking.
11th-H.M.S. Albion arrived at Hongkong.
Leong Kun Yan's case in the Supreme Court v. the Hon. F. H. May dismissed with costa. -Annual General Meeting of the Hongkong Cricket Club.
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Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders.-- Visit of Sir E. Salow to Canton.. 11th-Public holiday at Hongkong in honour of the King's Birthday.-New Chinese Cus- toms tariff introduced.-Opening of Hongkong Cricket Week. 12th-Great snowstorm at Peking. 13th-Hongkong beat the Straits Settlements by 129 runs. Fête on the Cricket Ground. 15th-A. Đ, C. entertainnent at the Theatre.
Straits at 16th-Shanghai defeated the
Hongkong by one wicket, 17th-Disastrous fire at 540 and 542, Des
Vœux Road.
18th-H. E. the Governor laid the foundation
stone of the new Tung Wa Hospital. 19th-Shanghai beat Hongkong by 7 wickets, completing the Hongkong Cricket Week. 20th-Hongkong Sanitary Board decide on general cleansing and disinfecting of the city-Triple collision in Hongkong Har bour; s.8. Skramstad sunk.-Japanese Con- cession marked ont at Chungking.
the 8.8 Fushun at 13th-Death at Tientsin of Major W. R. Little,
Hongkong Regiment.-Freuch school opened | 22nd-Conflagration on at Canton. 14th - Piracy at Potoi Island in Hongkong 25th-Arrest of Mr. T. T. Patterson, à British
waters.
subject, secretary to Sixto Lopez, at Manila. 17 Vote of condolence for President McKinley 27th-H.M.S. Cressy arrived at Hongkong.
passed by the Legislative Council.--Arrival | 28th-First Annual Meeting of the Hongkong of the Chinese troops in Peking, when the Nursing Institution.
29th-9. Andrew's Ball at Hongkong. Forbidden City was handed over to them.
Canton.
19th-Second enquiry into the Cochrane Street | 30th-Imperial Decree issued, disinheriting Pu
Chun, the heir apparent. collapse opened.
24th-Anniversary dinner at Tientsin, comme- morating the relief of the Settlements in 1900. 25th-Fatal fire on the U.S. terder Arethusa in Hongkong Harbour; uine lives were lost. 26th-Mr. A. G. Wise sworn in as Acting Chief'
Justice during the absence of Sir John Car-21st-V.R.C. Wafer Carnvial. rington, who went on leave to Japan that day. 29th Mr. Byron Brenan, British Consul. General at Shanghai, left for home, having retired from the service.-First Gymkharia of the season at Hongkong.
JULY,
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2nd-Dinner to Admiral S ymour at Govern-
ment House.
3rd-China Association luncheon to Admiral
Seymour at the Hongkong Club. 4th-Hon. W. H. Taft took the oath of office at Manila as first Civil Governor of the Philippines.
7th-Defeat of Chinese Imperial troops by
Mohammedan rebels near Paotingsu. 9th-Presentation of the Governor's Shield to the Hongkong Volunteer Corps at Headquarters. 11th-Petition re sanitation in Hongkong handed in to the Colonial Secretary; 1,034 signatures were attached.- General Gaselee handed over the command of the China Expeditionary Force to General Creaghi. 13th-Shooting match between Volunteers and
non-Volunteers at Kowloon. 15th-Prince Chan reached Shanghai on his
way to Germany on a mission of apology. 18th-H.E. Major-General Gascoigue went on
leave to Canada
20th-Disastrous fire at Nos. 6-8, Queen's Road; three lives were lost.-Inter-Christian riots at Hanchuan, Hupeh. 25th-Prince Chun landed in Hongkong on his way south; the reception was informal.-The dredger Canton - River at length raised. 26th-Great fire at Foochow, resulting in much loss of property.-Grain embargo imposed by the Corean Government. 31st.-Hurried departure of three British war- ships from Hongkong to Amoy; this was in connection with French telegraph operatious at Amoy, but the scare had no foundation.
AUGUST.
5th.-H.M.S. Glory struck by lightning in
Hongkong Harbour. 11th-Arrest of a British and an American
subject by the Russians at Newchwang. 14th-Terrible house collapse in Cochrane Street; 43 were killed and a great many injured.-Meeting in the Council Chamber about Hongkong's contribution to the --Victoria Memorial Fund.
15th-Final Meeting of the Typhoon Relief
Fund committee. 17th-Collision in Hongkong Harbour between the launch Lee Sung and the Meean e's cutter; eight Chinese on the former were drowned. 221st-Building collapse in Lower Lascar Row;
one life was lost. 2nd-The Hongkong Government notified that
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plague was no longer epidemioin the Colony; the figures then were 1,619 cases and 1,548 deaths.
DECEMBER.
22nd-Death of Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C., while | 1st-Arrival in Hongkong of Senhor Castello
on a holiday at Yokohama.
Branco, Portuguese Envoy Extraordinary to Football
China, on his way to Macao. 27th-Hongkong
Club's Annual
General Meeting. 28th-Dinner at the Club Lusitano in honour of the Portuguese Royal Birthday.-Opening of the Hongkong cricket season. Third gymkhana of the season.
OCTOBER.
1st-Rebellion feared in the Yangtsze Valley on account of distress caused by the floods.- News received of the attack by Triad men on the German Basel Mission station at Piang- thong, Kwangtung; rebels hearily defeated by Government troops at Chowchowfn.- Return of Major-General Sir William and La y Gascoigne.- New Japanese Admiralty port opened at Maizuru. 5th-Hongkong Jockey Club's Annual General
meeting.
6th-Chinese Imperial Court left Hsianfu for
Kaifeng-fu.
12th-Hongkong declared free from plague according to Venice Convention.-Public Works Commission appointed at Hongkong -Lieut.-Col, Sir J. W. Carrington's fare- well to the H.K.V.C. 15th-Visit of M. de Giers to Hongkong.—
Severe typhoon in the Philippines. 17th--Meeting of the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund Committee at the City Hall.-Depar- ture of Sir J. W. Carrington. 19th-Opening of the Volunteer Camp at
Stonecutters' Island. 24th-Death of Mr. E. Robinson, barrister,
from dysentery at Hongkong. 28th-Visit of M. Romanoff, Russian Deputy
Minister of Finance, to Vladivostok. 29th-The launch Yut Fut seized by pirates on
her way from Macao to Hongkong. 30th-Prince (hun landed in Hongkong on his return from Europe.-Funeral of the late Mr. J. J. Francis at the Happy Valley. 31st-Prince Chun proceeded north,
NOVEMBER,
1st-Royal Walsh Fusiliers' barracks, etc., at Tientsin and British barracks at Sinho burnt down.
2nd-Investiture of Sir W. Gascoigne with the
K. C. M. G. at Government House.
a visit 5th-Arrival of Sir Ernest Satow on
from the north.-First day of the Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting. 6th--Hongko g shot off in the Interport Shooting match, making the winning score of 901.
7th-Death of Li Hung-Chang, 8th-Arrival at Hongkong of Sir James Lyle Mackay, British representative in the com- mercial negotiations with China. and of Rear- Admiral H. T. Grenfell, second in command on the China Station. 9th-King's Birthday Loves at Government House, Hongkong.-Annnal dinner of the
9th-Indian soldier ran amok at Tientsin, kill- ing two German soldiers; trouble narrowly averted.
10th-Foochow Races, first day. 11th-V.R.C. Regatta, first day. 12th-Major-General Dorward arrived at Shanghai to take command of the British garrison.-Destructive fire at Honam, Canton. 13th-Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., left Hongkong to take up the post of Attorney-General at Fiji. 14th-Chinese Imperial Court left Kaifengfu on its way to Peking.-Final tie of the R.A. Polo Trophy competition won by the H.K Polo Club-Commencement of the Hong. kong Football Challenge Shield ties. 17th-First Diocesan Choral Festival at S.
John's Cathedral, Hongkong, 23rd-Annual meeting of the City Hall share-
holders and subscribers. 25th-Imperial Court reached Shengtefu, being
met by Yuan Shikai. 26th
- Civilians beat United Services at cricket by 33 runs at Hongkong. 29th-German steamer Clara sunk in a collision
in Hainan Straits.
30th-Senhor Castello Branco, the Portuguese envoy to Peking, returned to Hongkong on bis way north. 31st-Suspected mutiny among newly arrived
Portuguese troops at Macao averted,
HONGKONG.
His Excellency the Governor has approved of the appointment of Inspector R. G. McEwen to the position of Inspector of Markets under the Sanitary Board.
The police report the drowning of two China- men in the Harbour as the result of a fight. It appears that some trouble arose between the erows of two cargo-boats. A fight ensued, and two of the men getting into grips fell over- board. Both were drowned. One body has been recovered.
The resignations by Messrs. M. W. Slade in the Field Battery and lieutenant in the and J. Mossop of their commissions as captain Volunteer Corps have been accepted by II. E. the Governor, who has also approved of the former's provisional attachment as Captain to the Reserve of the Corps.
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new rickshas By the recent addition of 500 to the public service, curiously, difficulty has arisen. The public have taken kindly to the new vehicles, so kindly, in fact, that the coolies plying the old rickshas have difficulty in obtaining fures, and the owners are becoming unable to get cooles to hire them out This accounts for the scarcity of rickshas, at” certain points, which has been the subject of general comment of late.
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