VI
THE CALENDAR FÖR 1929
JANUARY 31 DAYS
BAROMETER, 1928, at SEA LEVEL
30.15 inches
SUNRISE
1st 15th
7h. 04m.
SUNSET 5h. 51m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1927 1928
...
***
7h. 07m.
6h. 00m.
Mean Maximum Mean Minimum Mean
64.2
65.9
56.3 57.8
...
59.7 61.6
MOON'S PHASES
d.
Last Quarter ...
3
2
44 A.M.
Mean
New Moon
11
28
A.M.
First Quarter.
18
11
15
P.M.
Full Moon
25
3 9 P.M.
1927 0.310 inches
RAINFALL
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Tues.
1
21
Wed.
22
Thurs.
3
23
Fri.
4
24
Satur.
5
25
Sun.
26
Mon.
27
Tues.
Op
28
Chronology of Remarkable EvenTS
1928 1.880 inches
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 men, 546 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gunboats and de- stroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sen as Provisional President, 1912. First Chinese Celebration of Western New Year, 1913.
First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted Appeal Court, Hongkong, 1913.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner Yeh captured, 1953. Chinese Government definitely refused to submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the Hongkong places of worship and mass
meeting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841. Chinese Govt. Press Bureau
initiated, 1914.
Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Namchow" sunk off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905.” Pre- sident Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, viz., Kweihwa Ch'eng, Kalgan, Dolon-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
Wed.
9
Thurs.
10
Fri.
11
28-
29
30
1
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872.
Satur.
12
2
Sun.
13
3
Mon.
14
Tues.
15
5
Wed.
16
Thurs.
17
Fri.
18
Satur.
19
6779
Sun.
20
10
Mon.
Tues.
Wed. Thurs.
2223
21
11
12
**
23
24
**
13
14
Fri.
25
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
** ** 2
15
26
16
27
17
28
18
29
19
35
30
31
22
20
21
New Union Church, Hongkong, opened
1891. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909. Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1875. China's Parliament
dissolved, 1914.
18T AFTER EPIPHANY. Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846. Strike of Seamen at Hongkong, which continued until March 5th and developed into a general sympa- thetic strike, 1922.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871. Volcanic eruptions and
tidal wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famine in Northern Japan, 1914.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. "Yik Sing" lost
at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peping, 1902. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peping, destroyed, 1889.
Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shanghai, 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport “Wannien-ching": latter sunk and 80 lives lost, 1887. Hongkong ceded to Great Britain, 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891. Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
Sir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911.
P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1865. Pitched battle between Police and robbers in Gresson St., Hongkong, 1918. Sir H. May's resignation of the Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
+
Matheus Rioci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peping, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida'
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870. Decrce announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt 1835. Terrific
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881. SEPTUAGESIMA.
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the Christian
faith in China, 1733.
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol withdrawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909.
Onter forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; cvolano eruption at Taal, P.I.,
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915.