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THE CALENDAR FOR 1898

SEPTEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

15th

Ist ............5h. 44m. ........5h. 48m.

6h. 16m.

1896

1897

6h. 02m.

Maximum Minimum

.91

92

.76

72

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. m. sec.

Last Quarter 8

BAROMETER, 1897

6

26

49 A.M.

New Moon 16 7

46

42

A.M.

Mean.......

29.87

First Quarter 23 10

15

44

A.M.

Full Moon

30 6 46 47

A.M.

15

APOGEE 10 days, 4.42 hours, P.M. PERGER, 25 days, 0.44 hours,

Date of Dier or 7 and 8

Frid

-

Su

3

*

P.M.

1896

9.99 inches

RAINFALL

1897

8.34 inches

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTB

Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870.

stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890.

Foundation

Arrival of the “Vega” at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage,

1879. Serious anti-foreign riot at lchang, 1891.

Hongkong plague proclamation revoked, 1894.

13TH AFTER TRINITY.

MONTH

MOONS

Thur.

1

16

17

18

19

Yon.

5 20

Τσε

21

Wed

7

29

Thur.

Frid.

9

Sat.

10

22* **

Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891.

23

25

Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1864.

Death of Two Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1869.

SUR. 11 26

Yon

12 27

28

Tues. 13

Ad 14 29

Thur. 15 | 30

Frid

16

1

Sat.

17

Sar

18

MUL

19

= 28 23 3 2

Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867.

Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1850.

Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen, 1883. British gunboat Wasp" left Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more, 1987.

14TH AFTER TRINITY. Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest

against proposed new Treaty with Japan, 1890,

Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung-chang, 1876.

Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese

Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891,

KL

Chinese transport · Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwardsof 370 lives lost, 1987,

Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1894.

New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1881.

The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese, losing five

vessels, 1894.

15TH AFTER TRINITY. Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889. Loss in

Ertogrul," with 567 lives, 1890. Kii Channel, bear Kobe, of the Turkish frigate

Tyes. 1 20

WL 21

6

Thar.. 29

7

Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.

Prid

23

8

Am. brig "Lubra" taken by pirates, 1866.

many thousands of lives lost, 1874.

Sat

24

9

25

10

Man

26

11

Tres 27

12

Wed 28

Thur. 29

Prid 30

13

14

15

H.M.S. **Rattler" lost of Japan, 1868. Piratical attack on the German barque “Apenrade," near Macao, 1869. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877.

10TH AFTER TRINITY. Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok street, Hongkong,

by armed robber, 1878.

Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840.

Yellow River burst its banks in Honan ; calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hon. P.

Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.

Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1884.

All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fest, 1841.

Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao

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