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THE CALENDAR FOR 1895

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

SUNRISE

2nd

.....6h.

10th

6m. ..6h. 15m.

SUNSET 5h. 21m.

1893

1894

5h. 15m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum Minimum

.82

81

........ .54

62

d. h. m. sec.

Full Moon

2

10

54

43 P.M.

6

42

46

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1894

17

0

47

45

A.M.

Mean..

.30.11

54 47 P.M.

Last Quarter 10 New Moon

First Quarter 24 2

PERIGEE, 13 days, APOGEE, 25 days,

DATS OF DATS or 9 and 10

WEEK MONTH

Mooxs

Frid.

1

15

Sat.

2

16

Sun.

3

17

Mon.

4

18

Tues. 5

19

Co

Wed. 6

Thur. Frid. 8

** & ***

midnight.

7 hours, P.M.

1893 0.03 inch

RAINFALL

1894

0.03 inch

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

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

Czar of Russia, 1894.

Death of Alexander III.,

Arrival at Hongkong

Chinese lighthouse tender "Fei-hoo" captured by French, 1884. of Mr. N. R. O'Conor, the new British Minister to China, 1892. 21ST AFTER TRINITY. Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval

action of Chuen-pee, 1839.

Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.

Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1831. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. English and French treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette," 1860.

Celebration of the Queen's Jubilee in Hong-

20

7

21

22

Sat.

9

23

The French repulsed in Korea, 1868.

kong, 1887.

Sun. 10

Mon. 11

24

25

Tues. 12

26

Wed. 13

27

Thur. 14

28

Frid. 15

29

Sat. 16

30

Sun.

17

Mon.

18

Tues. 19

Wed.

20

Thur. 21

Frid.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed. 27

Thur. 28

Frid. 29

Sat.

** 22 * * * * * * * 28

2

Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.

M

3

45

4

5

22

6

22ND AFTER TRINITY. Statue of Sir 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 Tonkin, 1886.

"

Hongkong first_lighted by gas, 1864. The _C. N. Co.'s Yangtsze steamer "Ichang

wrecked on Ta-yew Island, 1891. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the Palace, Peking, 1804.

Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893* 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.

23RD AFTER TRINITY. Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of

Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.

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

hundred lives lost, 1887.

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, 1864. Port

Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894.

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

the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 88 lives lost, 1877.

I

23

7

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

1881.

24

8

24TH AFTER TRINITY.

25

9

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

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

26

10

11

12

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

13

30

14

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

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

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

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

cruiser "

Chishima Kan," sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Ravenna," in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892.