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THE CALENDAR FOR 1891

SEPTEMBER-30 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

XV

SUNRISE

SUNSET

3rd

..........................5h. 45m.

6h. 14m.

1889

1890

15th

.5h. 48m.

6h. 02m.

Maximum Minimum

......90

91

MOON'S PHASES

..76

66

d. h.

12.

111.

sec.

New Moon

3 3 52

40 P.M.

BAROMETER, 1890

43

18

0

41 P.M. 39 48 P.M. 43 42 A.M.

Max......29.97

Min.......29.63

1889

1.94 inches

RAINFALL

1890

12.14 inches

First Quarter 11 6 Full Moon Last Quarter 25 6

APOGEE, 5 days, PERIGEE, 18 days,

DAYS OF DAYS OP 7 and 8

WEEK

4 hours, A.M. 3 hours, P.M.

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870. Foundation

stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890.

Treaty with Austria signed at Peking, 1969. Arrival of the "Vega" at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage, 1879. Terrific fire at Hankow; over 1,000 lives lost, 500 houses, 512 junks, and 2,000 sampans burned, 1887.

MONTH

MOONS

Tues.

1

28

Wed. 2

29

Thur. 3

1

Frid.

4

2

Sat.

5

3

Sun.

6

4

Mon.

7

5

Tues.

8

6

Wed.

9

7

Thur.

10

8

Frid. 11

9

Sat.

12

10

Sun. 13

11

Mon. 14

12

Tues. 15

13

Wed. 16

14

Thur. 17

15

Frid. 18

16

Sat.

19

17

Sun. 20

18

17TH AFTER Trinity.

Mon. 21

19

Tues. 22

20

Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1864.

H.M.S."

Zephyr" fired on by Chinese in Kimipai Pass, 1884. Death of Tso Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885. 15th after TRINITY. H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1989.

Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867.

Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1959.

Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen* 1883. British gunboat "Wasp" left Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more, 1987.

Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new Treaty

with Japan, 1890,

16TH AFTER TRINITY. Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung,

chang, 1876.

Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese

Customs' cruisers, 1874.

Chinese transport "Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887,

New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1881.

Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1899. Loss in Kii Channel, near

Kobe, of the Turkish frigate "Ertogrul," with 567 lives, 1990.

Wed. 23

Thur.

Frid.

21

24

22

25

23

7 2** *

*****

Sat. 26 Sun. 27

Terrific typhoon at Swatow, 1853.

Am. brig "Lubra" taken by pirates, 1866. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao.

many thousands of lives lost, 1874.

"

H.M.S. "Rattler" lost off Japan, 1868. Piratical attack on the German barque “Apen- rade, near Macao, 1869. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877.

Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok street, Hongkong, by armed robbers;

1878.

18TH AFTER TRINITY. Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840.

Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hon. F

Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.

24

Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

25

Mon. 28

26

Tues. Wed.

29

27

30

28

Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping,1865. All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 1841.