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THE CALENDAR FOR 1892

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

2nd 10th

...6h. 06m. .......6h. 15m.

5h. 21m.

1890

1891

5h. 15m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum Minimum

..83

82

.55

57

d. h. m.

sec.

Full Moon

Last Quarter 11 5 New Moon

19

8

First Quarter 27

6

4 11 25 43 P.M.

37 49 55 40 3 48

Barometer, 1891

P.M.

P.M.

Max......30.40

Min.......29.92

P.M.

DATS OF

BEK

PERIGEE, 4 days, APOGEE, 18 days,

'DAYS OF

MONTH

midnight.

noon.

1890

0.01 inch

RAINFALL

1891 2.30 inches

and 101 MOONS

Tues. 1

12

Wed.

Thur.

23

2

13

14

Frid.

4

15

Bat.

5

16

Sun.

17

CHRONOLOGY or Remarkable EventS

The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876.

Chinese lighthouse tender "Fei-hoo" captured by French, 1884. Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1889.

Great fire at Swatow ; several hundred houses destroyed, 1887.

Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.

Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1884. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1880. 21st after TRINITY. English and French treaties promulgated in the “Peking Gazette," 1800.

Mon.

18

Tues.

Wed.

co co

19

9

20

The French repulsed in Kores, 1866.

Thur.

10

21

Celebration of the Queen's Jubilee in kong, 1887. Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887.

Hong-

Frid. 11

22

Sat.

12

23

Sun. 13

24

Mon. 14

25

Tues. 15

26

Wed. 16

27

Thur. 17

28

1843.

Frid. 18

29

Sat.

19

Sun.

20

Mon.

21

Tues.

222 2

23

2

3

22

4

Wed.

23

Thur. 24

6

Frid. 25

7

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 Tonkin, 1896.

Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1884. The C. N. Co.'s Yangtaze steamer "Ichang"

wrecked on Ta-yew Island, 1801.

22ND AFTER TRINITY, Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860.

H.M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. “Wah Yeung*

by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887.

Shanghai opened to foreign commerce,

Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.

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

hundred lives lost, 1887.

23rd After TRINITY. Portuguese Custom house at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863. Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1964.

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" at Woosung,

1881.

Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1887.

Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.

Sat.

26

8

Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1889.

Sun. 27

9

1st in Advent. M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador,

for the murder of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.

Mon. 28

10

Tues. 29

11

Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. Murder of captain and four men of the British barque “Crofton," near Ku-lan, 1869.

Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890,

Wed.

30

12

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

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