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(3.) 8th Sunday after Trinity.
Japan signed 1860.
Treaty between Portugal and
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AUGUST.-Intercalary and 7th Moons.
PHASES OF THE MOON.
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FIRST QUARTER, ..................................... FULL MOON,
1st 10 05 9 28
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LAST QUARTER,.
New Moon,.............
Days of Days of |Days of
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Hock.
Moons.
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FIRST QUARTER...............31st 11 24 44 A.M. 15th 12 17 38 P.M. PERIGEE,.
9th 7 P.M. .29rd 0 07 03 A.M. | APOGEE, .... ........................................................24th
Chronological Events.
CHINESE.
Lammas Day. Great earthquake in Japan, 27 towns destroyed (15.) Solar term "autumn begins," Sun in Leo.
1789.
[Republic" arrived 1872,
(2.) P. & O. Str. " Australia" arrived 1872. P. M. SS. "Great
M. M. Str. "Donuai" arrived 1872.
(10.) 9th Sunday after Trinity. Sir H. Pottinger landed st
Macao 1841,
[Str. "Ava" arrived 1872. (11.) Half Quarter Day. Fort Namtow destroyed 1858. M. M. (12.) Str. "Sunshine" totally lost near Breaker Point 1872. (13.) Macao ceded to the Poringneso 1862; bat concession not
ratified.
(24.) Third change of the atmosphere.
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(15.) Kagosima barnt by Admiral Kuper in the "Luyolas “ (16.) Treaty between Fruro und Diam signed 1850, (17.) 10th Sunday after Trinity,
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(18.) Treaty between the Netherlands and Japan signed 1858.
Great fire in Hongkong 1808. P. & O. Str. "Cathay" arrived ¦ (1.) Seventh Moon. Solar terni “cessation of heat," (1872. i (20.) P. M. SS. “China " artived 1872.
21.) Taku Forts taken by allied forces 1860. [Fung died 1861. (22.) Governor Amaral murilored at Macao 1649. Emperor Hicu-Ma, Viceroy of Nankin, assassinated by anti-foreign fne- tion 1870.
(24.) 11th Sunday after Trinity, St. Bartholomeı. P. M. Str. "America" destroyed by fire in Yokohama Bay 1872. (25) Treaty between Great Britain and Japau sigued 1838. (26) First Number of China Neview published 1872. (27.) Road steamer successfully tried at Tientsin 1872. (28.) M. M. Str. "Camboga" arrived 1872. (29.) First Chinese war with Great Britain ended by siguing Treaty of Nanking 1812. Foochow opened to trade 1812. (36.) Mlecting of unofficial Justices as to Hongkong Police, 1871. (31.) 12th Sunday after Trinity. P. & O. Str. "Behar” air. 1872.
Sun en-
ters Virgo. (1-15.) Festival of Ta-lau, or All Soul's festival, lasting until the 15th of this moon, during which time priests (Tauists and Buddhists) read masses, burth paper clothes and scatter food, -all for the benefit of the dead.
(2.) Worship of Heaven. Coufession of sins.
(7.) Descent of the female genii of the Pleiades (called seven palaces.) A festival observed by women. Birthday of the god of the bedstead and of liwei-sin the star god of literature, both worshipped by Tauists.
SEPTEMBER. -7th and 8th Moons.
PHASES OF THE MOON.
Playe of Daye of Days of Munta Wisk. | Noon.
FULL MOON," Last Quanter, NEW MOON,
d. 72. 11. 8. 7th
45 38 A.N. 1
02 P.M. 13th 11 17 .22nd 1 27 32 4,30,
FIRST QUARTER, PERIGEL,..
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d. h. 711, 8. .29th 10 82 44 P.M.
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Notable
Events.
CHINESE.
ENGLISH.
Chronological
Battle of Sedan, sarrender of Napoleon III., 1870. (2-3.) Severe Typhoon, great luss to shipping, 1871.
(7.) 13th Sunday after Trinity. Prince Nagato's Batteries do-
stroyed by an English, French, and Dutch fleet, 1864. Shanghai taken by the Taipings 1853.
M. M. Str. "Peiho" arrived 1872.
(12.) "Svetlana" arrived in Hongkong, with Russian Grand
Duko Alexis, 1872. Pier Co's new-l'ier opened 1872. (14.) 14th Sunday after Trinity. Ember Week, Mr Richardson
murdered by Satsuma's retainers 1862.
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16th Sunday after Trinity.
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St. Michaei.
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Lord Macartney's Embassy arrived at Peking 1798. Garabling Houses in Hongkong opened 1807. P. & 0. Str. **Travancore" arrived 1972. P. M. SS. " Colorado" arrived (17.) EmbeTM Day. (19-20.) Ember Days,
(1872.
(21.j_15th Sunday after Trinity. St. Matthew. Chapel at
Falshan burned, uative Christians maltreated 1870. 30
Brit, ship" Taiping" lost on Ladd Reef, off Cochin China Const [1871. Autumnal Equinoz.
4 Memorial against Police approved in public meeting, 1871.
Typhoon at Hongkong, great destruction of native craft and loss M. M. Str. “Moikong " arrived 1872.
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(9.) Death of an Empress.
(10.) Death of an Empress.
(12.) Birth of Tau-ch'ang-ch'un, a Tanist saint, one of the
Tauistic seven true men of the North.
(13.) Birth of Mahâɛthâna, one of the so-called three Buddhistic
Bages of the West.
(15.) Birth of Mkudgalynyûna, a Buddhist saint, who went to hell to release his mother. Tauists called him Lo-puk.-Birth of Chung-yen, the prince of departed spirits, n Tauist deity. (16) Solar term "white dew." Sun in Virgo. (yeurs). (19.) Birth of Tai-sai, the 60 gods of the great year (cycle of 60 (21) Birthday of P'u-am, a Buddhist saint.
(22.)_Birth of Tsang-fu-tsai-slun, the Tanist god of happiness
and wealth, the patron of trade.
(24.) Birth of Shang-hwang, the god of cities; and of Ch'ing. son, a Tauist genie, also of Nâgårdjuna, the greatest philoso- pher and partriarch of the Buddhist church (A.D. 150). (25.) Death of Emperor Kia-bing, A.J). 1821. (30.) Birth of Ti-tsang-waug, a Buddhist saint, invoked on be.
half of the dead.
(change of presents of noon-cakes, (1.) Eighth Moon. Beginuing of the autumn festival. Iuter- (3.) Birth of She-tub-ta-wang, grent priuce of the agricnltural deities; also of Hü-sun, a deîfled Tavist physician, mud of Kin-kin, the spirit of the golden arazoar, a god worshipped i by the literati, Solar term "antumuat equinox." Suu euters Libra.
(of life 1870. ; (3.) Birth of Tsan-kinu, the Tauist domestic god of the hearth; also descent of the gods of the Northern measure, worshipped by Tanista.
(5.) Birthday of Lui-shing, the god of thunder.
(6.) Denth of the Emperor Tai-tsung-wên, A.D. 1014.