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THE CALENDAR FOR 1892

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

Į

1st 15th

....6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

1890

1891

..6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximium Minimum

.69

76

.46

50

d. h. m. sec.

First Quarter 7 Full Moon 14 11 Last Quarter 22 11 New Moon 30 0

8

48

42 A.M.

2 47 18 46 A.M. 14 46 A.M.

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1891.

Max.......30.33

Min......29.98

PERIGEE, 6 days, APOGEE, 20 days,

1 hour, A.M.

midnight

1890

1.79 inches

RAINFALL

1891

0.04 inches

DAYS OF DAys of

WEEK

MONTH

12 & 1 MOONE

Frid.

1

2

Sat.

2

3

Sun.

3

4

Mon.

5

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

7

Frid.

Sat.

9

10

Sun.

10

11

180 21

9

Mon. 11

12

Tues. 12

13

Wed. 13

14

Thur. 14

15

Chronology OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Establishment of bonded warehouses in Shanghai, 1888. "Death of Prince Chun, father of the Emperor Kwang-Su, 1891.

The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1706. Imperial Decree disgracing Ch'ung. How issued, 1880. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884.

2nd After Christmas. First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member

of the Legislative Council, 1884.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Coinmissioner

Yeh captured, 1858.

EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.

Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852.

Canton, 1785.

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, 1889. 1ST AFTER Epiphany.

Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872 New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,

1891.

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

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention of

opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Gunner of the "Lady Hughes" strangled at

Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1869.

Frid. 15

16

Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.

Sat.

16

17

Sun.

17

Mon. 18 Tues.

19

Wed. 20

Thur.

21

Frid.

Sat.

Sun. 24

25

Mon. Tues. 26

Wed. 27 Thur. 28 Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

2 *** ** ** * 2 .

22

23

23

29

22222 *** * ***

18

19

2nd after EpiphANY. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

20

Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

opened, 1863.

24

25

26

27

21 Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer “* ' Pekin, ' at Shanghai, 1891.

44

Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport Wan-nien-ching;" latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.

P. & O. steamer “Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1808.

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3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1801. U.S. corvette "Oneida" lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870.

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1885. Terrific

fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.

28

29

30

Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the Christian

faith in China, 1733.

30

N.Y. 1

Lord Saltoun left China with $8,000,000 ransom money,

1846.

31

2

4TH AFTER Epiphany.