THE CALENDAR FOR 1924
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
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SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
...6h 27m.
5h. 46m.
1922
1923
15th
...6h. 36m. 5h 40m.
Maximum
.. 74.1
75.6
Minimum
...63.4
68.3
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...68.4 71.6
d. h. m.
First Quarter
4 6
18
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1923
Full Moon
Mean
11
8
31
30.06
P.M.
Last Quarter
20
1
38
A.M.
1922
RAINFALL
1923
New Moon
27
1
15
A.M.
0.535 inches
0.405 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF | 10 & 11 WEEK MONTH MOONS
**Satur.
1
5
Sun.
2
Mon.
3
Tues.
Wed.
5
Thurs.
Fri. Satur.
Sun.
Co
789
ප
6
10
789
11
12
13
123
Mon.
10
10
14
Tues.
11
15
Wed.
12
16
Thurs.
13
17
Fri.
14
18
Satur.
15
Sun.
16
20
Mon.
17
Tues.
18
Wed.
19
* ** * *
19
21
22
23
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
ALL SAINTS DAY. The port of Quinhon, Annain, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Riotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1908. All Germans in Hongkong of military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1914. Presidential mandate issued denouncing Sun Yat-sen, 1914.
Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston "off North Luzon. Wireless telegraph service
opened between Macao and Hongkong, 1920.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839. Hongkong Jockey Club.formed, 1884.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kucmintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 members of Parliament, 1913.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,” 1860.
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtao to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
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Indo-China
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. Sandpiper" and "Canton City" sunk. Independence of Kwangtung province announced, 1911. German cruiser Enden destroyed by H.M.A.S. "Sydney" at Cocos Island, 1914.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. Assas-
sination of Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng at Shanghai, 1915.
Coronation of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, 1915.
F1. M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901.
Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910.
Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the
Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. De-th of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908. Armistice celebrations in Hongkong, 1918.
H. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Rail-
way, 1903. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908.
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened.
General strike of printers conunenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Important Harbour Improvement works at Macao announced, involving an expenditure
of over $10,000,000, 1920.
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 1910. Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s s.s. "Sui An" pirated on her way from Macao to Hongkong by 60 pirates, who had gone aboard as passengers, 1922.
Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from
Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow, 1911.
Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877. Resignation en bloc of unofficial members of Hongkong Licensing Board as a protest against the action of the Executive in restoring the licerces of the Peak and Grand Hotels, 1915. Chinese commenced boycott of trams iu Hongkong which lasted seven weeks, 1912. Death of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G., member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, 1915.
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871, Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890. Terrible floods in Chihli; Hong- kong voted $100,000 towards relief of distress, 1916.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder
of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. Blake Pier,
Hongkong, opened, 1900.
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
troops at Macao, 1910.
Revolt of
1ST IN ADVENT. ST. ANDREW'S DAY. ST. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Ravenna" in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolutionists and Imperialists, 1911.
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Thurs. Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
24
22 2 **
20
24
21
25
22
26
23
27
28
Tues.
25
25
29
Wed. Thurs.
Fri,
Satur.
Sun.
30
* 28
26
30
27
1
28
2
29