Good Friday.
CHINESE.
(15.) Fête-day of Lau-tsze, founder of Tauism, B.C. 604 and of Yoh-fi, a deified minister of the Sung dynasty. Anniver- sary of Shakyamuni Buddha's entrance into Nirvana, B C 543.
Easter Sunday. Bogue Forts destroyed by Ge: 1 D'Aguilar (16.) Venus enters Cuncer between 11-1 p.m. 1847.
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Sir R. G. MacDonnell left for Europe 1872.
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Low Sunday.
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37,000 Christians butchered in Japan 1638.
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Str. "Rona" sunk by collision with Str. " Ava," great life 1872. P. & O. Str. “Tarjore" arrived.
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Sir A. Kennedy assumed government of Hongkong 1872. eclipse of the sun, invisible at Greenwich. (17.) Telegraph to Shanghai opened 1871. 2nd Sunday after Easter.
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Termination of East Ind. Co.'s monopoly in China 1834. St. George's Day.
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St. Mark. Coolie Kwok Asing discharged by Chief Justice Smale 1871. EMPEROR OF CHINA, T'UNG-CHI, BORN 1857. (26.) 3rd Sunday after Easter.
(27.) P. & O. Str. "Cathay" arrived.
(18.) Solar term "clear and bright." Sun in Aquarius. Taing ming festival. Worship on the tombs.
(19.) Birthday of Kwanyin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy (Ava- lokiteshvara). Birthday of a goddess of the sea.
(20.) Birthday of Samanta-bhadra, the patron of the popular Buddhist sect called Lotus-school.
(22.) Mercury enters Scorpio between 9-1 a.m. Day of ill luck. (25.) Birthday of Hiuen-tien-shin-fu, a Tauist deity, father of the god of the sombre heavens.
(26.) Anniversary of the death of an Empress.
(1.) Third Moon. Birthday of the judge of the second court in hell. Moon enters Capricorn between 9-1 a.m. (3.) Birthday of Hiuen-tien-shang-ti or Peh-ti, supreme ruler of the sombre heavens, god of the North pole, a Tauist worthy deified by the Ming dynasty. The spirit of the earth exer- cises great influence.
(5.) Solar term “ grain rain.” Sau enters Capricorn between (6.) Birthday of Chang, Tauist worthy.
(8.) Birthday of the judge of the sixth court in hell. (10.) Birthday of a tutelary spirit of the ground. (11.) Anniversary of the death of an Empress.
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(12-15.) On or about the 15th of this moon is held the „gricul- tural festival, when the Emperor ploughs a few furrows, (13.) Birthday of some of the tutelar spirits of the ground. (15.) Birthday of I-ling tai-ti, a deined physician, and of Hiuen- tan, god of the sombi alt r, controller of disease, both wor- shipped by Tauists.
MAY.-3rd and 4th Moons.
PHASES OF THE MOON.
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