VIII
THE CALENDAR FOR 1931
JANUARY-31 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
1st
7h. 03m.
SUNSET 5h. 50m.
1929
1930
...
...
15th
...
7h. 06m.
6b. 00m.
Mean Maximum Mean Minimum Mean
66.9
59.1
...
59.4
50.9
...
...
62.5 54.6
MOON'S PHASES
d.
b.
m.
BAROMETER, 1930, AT SEA LEVEL
Full Moon
4
9
15
P.M.
Mean
...
Last Quarter
11
1
y
P.M.
New Moon
19
2
36 A.M.
27
8
5
A.M.
1929 0.930 inch
RAINFALL
...
30.19 inches
1930 2.275 inches
First Quarter.....
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK
Thurs.
Fri.
MONTH
MOONS
13
14
Satur.
3
15
Sun.
16
Mon.
Tues,
Wed.
Thurs.
5
00
17
18
19
20
22X
Fri.
9
21
Satur.
10
2.2
Sun.
11
23
Mon.
12
24
Tues.
13
25
Wed.
14
26
Thurs.
15
27
Fri.
18
28
Satur. Sun. Mon.
17
29
18
19
Tues.
20
2
Wed.
Thurs,
Fri.
21
SN SA SA & 8
22
23
Satur.
24
25
26
27
Sun. Mon.
Tues.
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sen as Provisional President, 1912. Anti-foreign demon- strations at Hankow, 1927.
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. Sino-French Treaty signed, Spain and Portugal renounce extraterritorality, 1929.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS, Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Chinese Government refused to submit Macao boundary question to arbitra. tion, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice Hongkong, 1919. British women and children
leave Hankow, 1927.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1878. All British leave Hankow, 1927.
Forts at Chuenpi taken, 1841. Chinese Govt. Press Bureau initiated, 1914. British
women and children leave Kiukiang, 1927.
British str. "Namchow" sunk off Cup Chi, near Swatow, 1892. French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. President Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, 1891. Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Trywhitt, D.S B., C.-in-c., China Squadron, vice Admiral Sir E. A. Sinclair, K.C.B., M.V.O., arrived Hongkong, 1927, Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
Peace treaty ratified with Germany, 1920.
New Union Church,
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872.
Hongkong, opened, 1891. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong appealed for endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909. Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, 1875. China's Parliament dissolved, 1914.
O'Malley, consellor of British Legation arrived in Hankow for conference with Eugene Chen, 1927.
Mr.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to open up Canton, 1846. Strike of Seamen at Hongkong, which continued until March 5th and developed into a general sympathetic strike, 1922. Establishment of Chinese faculty at Hongkong University, 1927. Religious institutions at Foochow looted, missionaries left the City, 1927.
Volcanic eruptions and
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
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 Peiping, 1902. Five cruisers of Mediterranean Fleet ordered to China, 1927. Barricades erected across en- trances to foreign concessions, S'hai., 1927. Wreck of s.s."Hsin Wah” near H'kong, 1929. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peiping, destroyed, 1889,
30 2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
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28
10
Wed.
Thurs,
29
11
Fri.
30
12
Satur.
31
13
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Collision near Woosung between P. & O. "Nepaul" and Chinese transport "Wannien- ching", 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.
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P. & O. steamer "Niphon' lost off Amoy, 1868. Sir H. May's resignation of the
Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
Great floods in Malaya, serious loss of life, crops and cattle, 1927. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peiping, 1601.
resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY.
Decrce announcing
AUSTRALIA DAY. Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao
burnt, 1835. Terrific fire at Tokyo, 1881.
England, America, France and Japan agreed to jointly maintain a garrison of 4,000
men at Shanghai, 1927. Pirating of the s.s. 'Seang Bee," 1927.
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Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, the propagation of the Christian faith in China, 1733. Further outrages at Fonchow, 1927. 4 steel tanks, for water storage, cabled for to England on account of the drought, arrived in Hongkong, 1929. Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol
withdrawn from West River, 1908.
New Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, Hongkong, opened, 1929. Sir Cecil Clementi le't
to take up governorship of Straits Settlements, 1930.
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano erruption at Taal, P.I., 1911.