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THE CALENDAR FOR 1894

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

1892

1893

...6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

Maximum

.76

73

MOON'S PHASES

Minimum

.46

32

d. h. m. sec.

New Moon

7

10

43

44 A.M.

7

45

42

A.M.

Barometer, 1893.

10

47

44

P.M.

Mean.......

......31.09

0

26 48 A.M.

1892

0.52 inches

RAINFALL

1893 1.53 inches

First Quarter 15 Full Moon 21

· Last Quarter 29

APOGEE, 5 days, PERIGEE, 20 days,

Days of Days op | 11 & 12

WEEK

MONTH MOONS

722

8 hours, P.M. 11 hours, a.M.

CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable EvenNTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1888. 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. 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. Commissioner

Yeh captured, 1858.

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

1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi,

near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, 1869.

Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1889.

Mon.

1

25

Tues. 2

26

Wed.

3

Thur.

4

28

Frid.

5

29

Sat.

6

30

Sun.

7

1

Mon.

8

2

Tues. 9

3

Wed. 10

4

Thur.

11

5

Frid.

12

6

Sat.

13

7

Sun. 14

8

2nd after EpiphANY. Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Mon. 15

9

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

Tues. 16

10

Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.

Wed.

17

11

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.

Thur.

18

12

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

Frid.

13

20

1 2 3

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.

Sat.

Sun.

21

Mon.

22

Tues. 23

Wed.

24

Thur.

Frid.

25

26

Sat. 27

Sun.

Mon.

Tues. 30

Wed. 31

28

29

22 7** * 2

** 2 2 2* * ** ** * 8.

15

16

17

18

19

20

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

opened, 1863.

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

SEPTUAGESIMA Sunday. 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, 1868.

Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette 'Oneida " lost through collision with P. & Ö. steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870.

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Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835.

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

Terrific

21

22

SKKAGESIMA SUNDAY.

23

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

Christian faith in China, 1738.

24

Lord Baltoun left China with $8,000,000 ransom money, 1946.

25