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THE CALENDAR FOR 1889.

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS.

MOON'S PHASES.

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.

d.

M.

Full Moon

7

Last Quarter 16

4

New Moon 23 9

h. 11 41 42

11 48 A.M. 19 19 46 A.M.

1887.

1888.

sec.

P.M.

Maximum Minimum

78

78

...56

59

First Quarter 30 1 4 47 A.M.

Barometer, 1888.

Max.

...30.

Min.

29.

RAINFALL.

0.079 inches.

1888. 0.25 inches.

WEEK.

MONTH. MOONS.

Frid.

1

9

Sat.

2

10

Sun.

3

11

Mon.

4

12

Tues.

5

13

Wed.

6

14

APOGEE, 12 days, 12 hours, midnight. 1887. PERIGEE, 24 days, 10 hours, P.M.

DAYSOF DAYS OF 10 & 11

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Chronology of Remarkable Events.

All Saints. The port of Quin-hon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1878. All Souls. Chinese lighthouse tender "Feishoo" captured by French, 1884.

20th after Trinity. Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the naval action

of Chuen-pee, 1839 Great fire at Swatow; several hundred houses destroyed, 1887. Hongkong Jockey Club formeu, 1884.

Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1880. English and French treaties promulgated by the Peking Gazette, 1860.

Thur.

7

15

Frid.

8

16

Sat.

9

17

Sun.

10

18

Mon.

11

19

Tues.

12

20

Wed. 13

21

Thur.

14

22

Frid.

15

23

Sat.

16

24

Sun.

17

25

Mon.

18

26

Tues. 19

27

Wed.

20

28

Thur. 21

29

Frid.

22

30

Sat.

23

1

W

The French repulsed at Corea, 1866. Celebration. with great pomp, of the Queen's

Jubilee in Hongkong, 1857.

21st after Trinity, Statue of Bir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens,

Hongkong, 1887.

H.M.S."Racehorse” wrecked off Chefoo, out of a crew of 108 only 9 saved, 1864. Death

of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonquin, 1586.

Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864.

Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860.

II. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. "Wah

Yeung" by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 100 lives lost, 1887. H.R.H. Prince Alfred left Hongkong, 1969.

22nd after Trinity. Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1943.

Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867. Ch'ung How arrived in Hongkong en route for France

as special Ambassador, to explain the Tientsin Massacre, 1870.

Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed, and several

hundred lives lost, 1887.

Portuguese Custom house at Macao closed, 1815. Lord Elgin died 1863.

Major Baldwin and Lient. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864.

Great fire at Canton, 1,400 houses destroyed, 1835. Terrible boiler explosion on board.

the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877.

Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante "

Voosung, 1881.

Sun.

24

2

23rd after Trinity.

Mon. 25

3

Capture of Auping, Formosa, 1888. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1837.

Tues. 26

4

Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.

Wed.

27

5

M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder

of the French at Tientsin, June 21st, 1870-1871.

Thur.

28

6

Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.

Frid. 29

7

Murder of captain and four men of the British barque “Crofton,” near Ku-lan, 1869.

Sat.

30

8

St. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872.