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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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On 3 April 1899, Police Magistrate May accompanied by four Sikh policemen went to Tai Po New Market (now Tai Wo Market) and were surrounded by local Tai Po villagers; that night the mat-sheds of the temporary police station were burned down and the British personnel were finally forced to withdraw.
On 4 April 1899, Major-General Gascoyne, as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong, together with Colonial Secretary Stewart Lockhart, led 125 British soldiers by boat to Tai Po to deal with local incidents.
On 9 April 1899, Governor Blake announced publicly that the date for taking over the New Territories would be 17 April, and Chinese notices explaining the governance approach were posted at various locations in the New Territories.
On 10 April 1899, the Tai Ping Kung Kuk organisation appeared at Tung Ping She Hok in Yuen Long, formed by gentry from various parts of the New Territories, which recruited able-bodied villagers to organise armed forces to resist the British troops, with funds raised by the villages themselves.
On 14 April 1899, near Tai Po New Market (now Tai Wo Market), villagers again set fire to and destroyed the mat-sheds erected for the flag-raising ceremony.
On 15 April 1899, more than a thousand militia used gingals and cannons at Mui Shue Hang to intercept 122 British Indian soldiers heading to Tai Po New Market; that afternoon the British warship HMS Fame arrived and opened fire, destroying several militia defences, whereupon the militia scattered.
On 16 April 1899, the British held a flag-raising ceremony at Tai Po, hoisting the British flag to declare that the New Territories had come under British rule; those present included Colonial Secretary Lockhart, Major-General Gascoigne and British naval Commodore Powell.
On 17 April 1899, British troops clashed repeatedly with New Territories militia in the Lam Tsuen Valley area of Tai Po, and the militia were finally defeated, with their artillery position at Lam Tsuen Gap also falling.
On 18 April 1899, the Hong Kong Government laid down provisions on the boundaries, administrative structure and legal affairs of the New Territories, and enacted a related ordinance.
來源 《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口)(香港地方志中心) · p.61
引用名稱法例/計劃 《1899年新界原居民及審裁處條例》(The New Territories Indigenous Inhabitants and Tribunal Ordinance 1899)
legal
1899-04-18 · 八鄉石頭圍村
1899年4月18日,新界約1200名鄉勇在八鄉石頭圍村附近對英軍展開反攻,最後被英軍擊敗。
On 18 April 1899, about 1,200 New Territories militia counter-attacked the British troops near Shek Tau Wai village in Pat Heung, and were finally defeated.
On 18 April 1899, the British used explosives to breach the walls of Kat Hing Wai and Tai Hong Wai, and took away the chained iron gates of Kat Hing Wai to Britain as war trophies.
On 18 April 1899, the Hong Kong Government enacted an ordinance covering the division, administration and judicial matters of the New Territories.
來源 《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口)(香港地方志中心) · p.62
引用名稱法例/計劃 《1899年新界原居民及審裁處條例》(The New Territories Indigenous Inhabitants and Tribunal Ordinance 1899)
government
1899-04-18 · 新界
根據該條例,港督有權以憲報公告方式,把新界境內任何地區從條例的涵蓋範圍中移除。
Under the ordinance, the Governor of Hong Kong had the power, by notice in the Gazette, to remove any area within the New Territories from the scope of the ordinance.
On 19 April 1899, British reinforcements from Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan landed and later joined the main force; on the same day, many villages in the New Territories, including Kam Tin, Ha Tsuen and Ping Shan, successively expressed submission to the British troops.
On 21 April 1899, Colonial Secretary Lockhart forced the residents of Kam Tin and Ha Tsuen villages to submit petitions of submission, marking the formal end of the armed anti-British resistance of the New Territories villagers.