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THE CALENDAR FOR 1898

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

ist ............6h.

6m.

5h. 22m.

15th............6h. 14m. 5h. 16m.

MOON'S PHASES

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1896

1897

Maximum

..80

86

Minimum

.62

51

d. h. m. sec.

Last Quarter

6 10

3

48

P.M.

New Moon

14

7

58

46

BAROMETER, 1897

A.M.

First Quarter 21

0

41

40

A.M.

Mean...

.30.06

i

Full Moon

28

0

15 42 P.M.

APOGEE, 4 days,

PERICEE, 16 days,

8.41 hours, P.M. 2.43 hours, P.M.

1896

2.97 inches

RAINFALL

1897

7.32 inches

Busz Dyre of Pand 10

CHRONOLOGy of Remarkable EvenTS

1 MONTH. Meoxs

17

The 1

18

Ted

2

19

Thur.

Sat

20

21

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

Czar of Russia, 1894.

Chinese lighthouse tender "Fei-hoo" captured by French, 1884. Arrival at Hongkong

of Mr. N. R. O'Conor, the new British Minister to China, 1892.

Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839.

Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.

22 Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860.

2 872 X *** 22

22nd After TrisITY. English and French treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,"

1960.

Sun

6

23

Mon.

24

Ipes

25

Wed

9 26

Thur. 10

27

Frid

11

28

Sat 12

29

Jun. 13 30

Kon

14 1

Tues. 15

2

Fed

16

3

Tour. 17

Frid.

Sat.

18

4

5

19

28

Prince of Wales born, 1841. The French repulsed in Corea, 18366.

Queen's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887.

Celebration of the

Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1897. H.M.8. "Racehorse” wrecked off Chefoo, out of a crew of 109 only 9 saved, 1864. Death

of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1856.

Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1964. The Foreing Ministers had audience within the

Palace, Peking, 1994.

231D AFTER TRINITY. Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1880. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee,

1893. Germans took possession of Kianchau Bay, 1997

H.M. gunboat **Gnat " lost on the Palawan, 1969, Destruction of the str. "Wah Yeung"

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

Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.

Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.

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

hundredt lives lost. 1997.

24TH AFTER TRINITY. Portuguese Custom house at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died,

1963.

Major Baldwin and Lient. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1964. Port

Arthur token by the Japanese, 1894.

Мод

8

22

9

X

Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives

lost, 1977.

10

Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the “Bacchante" at Woo9ung

181.

! Ther. 24

Pri

Su

Mi

TO

11

12

Capture of Anning. Formosa, 1968. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1897.

Imperial Diet of Jawan met for the first time, 1890,

26 13

1 2 3 =

* 2 * * * 88

27 14

| 15

16

Wed 30

17

Elict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1939.

1ST IN ADVENT. M. Thiery accents the apology of Ch'ting How, the Chinese Ambassador,

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

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

ET

The Japanese

Murder of captain and four men of the British barque “Crofton, near Ku-lan, 1800. -

Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1800. St. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1972.

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

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