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THE CALENDAR FOR 1898

JANUARY–31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

.6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

1896

1897

15th............6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

Maximum

Minimum

.78

79

.52

47

MOON'S PHASES

d. h.

m. sec.

Full Moont

8 R

0

43 P.M.

BAROMETER, 1897.

Last Quarter 15 11

20

New Moon

22 3

First Quarter 29 10

APGEE, 4 days, 10.46 hours, P.M.

45 P.M. 47 A.M. 47 P.M.

Mean...

.30.10

FREEE, 20 days,

7,43 hours, P.M.

1896 1.73 inches

RAINFALL

1897 2.26 inches

7

SH

1 10

Velle

Tues.

F-d

Thur.

5 13

6 | 14

Potenz Days OF 12 & 1 Mostu MooNS

CA

9

i 11

12

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872,

2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS, 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 Legislativa

Council, 188.

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

Frid. 7 15

Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

FIL

16

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852.

British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi

near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892,

Sea

9 17 Voa 10 18

Tres. 11

FAL 12 20 Mar. 13

19

21

Frid

14

99

15

23

Yon.

17

Taps WAL

18

19

27

2 * * *SK

Sun 16 24

187 after Epiphasy. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1889. Marriage

of the Mikarto of Japan, 1869.

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

1801.

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.

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

2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.

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

flur. 20 28

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

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

opened, 1863,

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

+

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, 1871.

The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.

Fal. 21

29

Scato

22 NY.1

123

ม

Va

24 |

Tres.

25

W-d

28

Ther. Ind. 28

Mon

20

9

21

10

* * * * *N** 87

3rd after EpiphaNY. P. & O. steamer “Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868. Matheus Ricci. the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1801. U.S. corvette

lost through collision with P. & O). steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870.

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11

5

6

7

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.

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

Christian faith in China, 1783.

ATH AFTER EPIPHANT, Lord Baltoun left China with $8,000,000 ransom money, 1846.

Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1895.

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