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THE CALENDAR FOR 1928-
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1926
1927
83.0
75.9
60.9 67.1
...
... 68.9
71.0
BAROMETER, 1927, AT SEA LEVEL
·
...
...
...
RAINFALL
30.08 inches
1927 1.825 inches
SUNRISE
1st 15th
...
6h. 27m. 6h. 36m.
SUNSET 5h. 46m. 5h. 40m.
Maximum
...
Minimum
Mean
...
Last Quarter . New Moon
First Quarter... Full Moon
MOON'S PHASES
Th
d.
h.
4
2
m. 30 P.M.
Mean
12
9
59 A.M.
20
1
59 P.M.
1926
27
9 29 A.M..
4.965 inches
DAYS OF Days of
WEEK MONTH
9 & 10 MOONS
Thurs.
1
20
Fri.
2
21
ස
Satur.
22
Sun.
Mon.
222
23
24
Tues.
6
25
Wed. Thurs.
Fri.
789
26
27
28
Satur.
10
29
Sun.
11
30
Mon.
12
1
Tues.
13
Wed.
14
3
Thurs.
15
Fri.
16
5
Sat.
17
Sun.
18
Mon.
19
00
=
Tues.
20
Wed.
21
27
9
10
Thurs.
22
11
Fri,
23
12
Satur.
24
13
23
Bun.
25
25
14
Mon.
Tues.
**
26
15
27
16
Wed.
28
17
Thurs.
29
18
Fri.
30
19
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
ALL SAINTS DAY. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Riotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1908. Mr. C. Climenti, New Governor, arrives in Hongkong, 1925.
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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 hy the naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839. Hongkong Jockey Cluh formed, 1884. President Tsao Kun forced to resign, 1924. Great fire at Macao, 500 houses hurnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kuomintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 menihers of Parliament, 1913. Manchu Emperor evicted from Imperial Palace and Ahdication Agreement revised, 1924.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the Peking Gazette, 1860.
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Hainan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtao to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
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 Emden destroyed by H.M.A.S. "Sydney" at Cocos Island, 1914.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. Ass35- sination of Adiniral Tseng Ju-cheng at Shanghai, 1915. Coronation of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, 1915.
H.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. Armistice arranged in Great War, 1918.
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 hetween Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shangliai Jubilee, 1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death 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 commenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Important Harhour 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 Macaoclosed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Port Arthur taken hy the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from
Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow, 1911.
Terrible hoiler explosion on hoard 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 licences of the Peak and Grand Hotels, 1915.
Chinese commenced hoycott of trams in 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. Marshal Tuan Chi Jui assumes office as Chief Executive of China, 1924.
Capture of Auping, 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 forhidding trade with British ships, 1839. M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Amhassador, 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. Revolt of
troops at Macao, 1910.
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 hetween Chinese Revolutionists and Imperialists, 1911. Manchu Emperor seeks sanctuary in Japanese Legation, 1924.