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THE CALENDAR FOR 1888.

JANUARY-31 DAYS.

MOON'S PHASES.

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.

Last Quarter 6 New Moon 13 First Quarter 21 Full Moon

29

d. h. m.

7 18 46 P.M. 4 14 47 P.M. 0 25 43 P.M. 6 54 49

49 A.M.

1886.

1887.

800.

Maximum Minimum

.73

69.7

44

48.9

PERIGEE, 8 days, 9 hours, P.M. APOGEE, 21 days, 9 hours, ▲,M,

DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12 WEEK. MONTH. MOONS.

Sun.

1

18

Mon.

2

19

Tues.

3

20

Wed.

4

21

Thur,

5

22

Frid.

6

23

Sat.

7

24

Sun.

8

25

Mon.

9

26

Tues. 10

27

Wed. 11

28

Thur. 12

29

Frid. 13

1

Sat.

14

2

Sun. 15

3

Mon. 16

Tues. 17

Wed. 18

6

Thur. 19

7

Frid. 20 Sat.

Sun. 22

8

21

9

10

Mon. 23.

11

Tues. 24

12

Wed. 25

13

Thur. 26

14

Frid.

27

15

Sat.

28

16

Sun. 29

17

Mon. 80

18

Tues.

31

19

BAROMETER, 1887.

Max. ......30.184 Min.......29.759

1886. 2.015 inches.

RAINFALL.

1887. 8.430 inches.

Chronology of Remarkable Events.

1st after Christmas. Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through

Russia opened, 1872,

The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1706. Imperial Decree disgracing Ch'ung How issued, 1850. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884.

Lin Tai-heu appointed Commissioner, 1839. Li Sing-yuen appointed Imperial Commis-

sioner in Kwangsi, 1851.

First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1881.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang .prohibiting trale with England, 1840. Commissioner

Yeh captured, 1858.

Epiphany. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878, Forts at Chuenpi taken with great saughter, 1841.

1st after Epiphany. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1882. Gunner of the "Lady Hughes" strangled at Canton, 1785. Execution of Li Yung-choi, the rebel leader in Kwangsi, 1880.

8.

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Pesk, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1869. Several chests of Opium forcibly taken by the Mandarins from an English resident in

Canton, 1838.

Sir R. Alcock left Hongkong for England, 1870. Seamen's Church, West Point, opened,

1872.

Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875.

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Kwang-tung and Kwang-si, issues a proclamation recommending moderation in dealing with foreigners, and intimating the intention of opening up Canton socording to the Treaties, 1848.

Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

2nd after Epiphany. Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857

Telegraph cable between Japan and Cores opeñed to traffic, 1884.

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally opened, 1863. The "Frederic" burnt by the Coolies, 1870. Chung How and Suite returned to China from France, 1872.

Attack on Lieut. Kerr and the both of the “Cockchafer" at Swatow, 1889. Collision near Woosung between P. & 0. str. “ Nepaul" and Chinese transport “ Wan-nien- ching"; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. 3rd after Epiphany. The Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & O. steamer "Niphon " lost off Amoy, 1868.

Matheus Ricoi, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette “Oneida "

lost through collision with P. & 0, steamer “Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870.

Instructions from Lord Palmerston to Lord Napier, superintendent of British Trade in China, 1834. Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1886. Terrific firest Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost,1881, Establishment of Amoy Chamber of Commerce, 1876. British str. “Carisbrooke” burned

and scuttled in Hongkong harbour, 1883.

Huang-tsong-han appointed Imperial Commissioner at Canton, 1855.

Septuagesima, Decree from Yang-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the pre-

pagation of the Christian faith in China, 1733.

Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846.