THE CALENDAR FOR 1902
SEPTEMBER-30 DAYS
xix
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
Ist
..5h. 44m.
6h. 16m.
1900 1901
15th...
...5h. 48m.
6h. 02m.
Maximum
..90.8
90.8
Minimum
...74.4
73.5
Mean
.81.1 80.3
MOON'S PHASES
d. h. m.
Barometer, 1901
New Moon
2 0
56
A.M.
Mean
.29.88
First Quarter
9
5
52
P.M.
Full Moon
17
P.M.
Last Quarter
24
0
P.M.
1900 4.310 inches
RAINFALL
1901 3.890 inches
Days of Days or 7 and 8
WEEK
MONTH
Mooks
Mon.
1
29
Tues.
1
Wed.
2
Thur.
Frid.
4
Sat.
в
ນ
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
10
7000
6
8
9
8
9
Thur. 11
10
Frid.
12
11
Sat.
13
12
Sun. 14
13
Mon. 15
14
Tues. 16
15
Wed. 17
16
Thur. 18
17
Frid.
19
Sat.
20
Sun.
21
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.❘ 24
Thur. 25
24
Frid. 26
25
Sat.
27
26
Sun.
Mon.
ues.
27
29
28
30
29
2 27** 25
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21
23
**22*
18
19
20
23
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKable EventS
Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870. Foundation
stone of Gap Rock fighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890.
Arrival of the "Vega” at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage,
1879. Kiaochau declared a free port, 18908.
Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894.
Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1964.
Death of Two Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885,
H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1889. Imperial Court left Hsianfu on the way to Peking, 1961. Assassination of Mr. McKinley, President of the U.S.A., 1901.
15til after TRINITY.
Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1801.
Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1987.
Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1859.
Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen, 1883. British gunboat. “Wasp" left_Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more, 1887.
Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new
Treaty with Japan, 1897,
Convention signed at Cheloo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung-chang, 1878.
16th after Trišity. Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891. Chinese transport
Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887. Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1894.
New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1961.
The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinesc were defeated by the Japanese, losing five
vessels, 1804.
Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1839. Loss in Kil Channel, near Kobe, of the Turkish frigate"" Ertogrul,” with 567 lives, 1890. Count von Waldersee, Allied Generalissimo; reached Hongkong, 1905.
Riots at Kumeluck, Kwangtung, 1900,
17th APIER TRINITY. Count von Waldersec reached Shanghal, 1990. Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.
Am. brig “Lubra" taken by pirates, 1868. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao,
many thousands of lives lost, 1874.
H.M.S. "Rattler" lost off Japan, 1883. Piratical attack on the German barque Apenrade,” near Macao, 1869. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877.
Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok street, Hongkong, by armed robbers.
1878. Arrival of Sir Henry A. Blake, o.c.M.G., Governor of Hongkong, 1899. Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1934.
Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840.
18TH AFTER TRINITY. Yellow River burst its banks in Honan ; calamitous inundation, 1987.
Death of Hon. Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.
Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1885.
All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 1841.
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