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THE CALENDAR FOR 1900

OCTOBER-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

....5h. 53m. ..........5h. 58m.

5h. 47m.

1898

1899

5h. 34m.

Maximum

....88.5

86.4

MOON'S PHASES

Minimum

...65.3

65.9

d. h. m.

sec.

Mean

....74.9

74.8

First Quarter 2

4

46

47 A.M.

Full Moon

8

8

54

42

P.M.

Last Quarter 15 New Moon

26 49

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1899

23

3 43

P.M.

Mean......

30.06

First Quarter 31

3

53 45 P.M.

PERIGEE, 8 days, APOGEE, 21 days,

DAT OF DAYS OF 8 and ◊ WAAK MONTI MOONB

0.44 hours, P.M. 1.43 hours, P.M.

1898 RAINFALL

1899

6.720 inches

0.875 inches

Chronology OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Hongkong Daily Press" started, 1857. Inauguration of Hongkong College of Medicine. 1887. Hyogo declared an open port, 1892. in Japan, 1897.

Confucius born, B.C. 562. Tamsui bombarded by French, 1884.

Gold Standard adopted

Serious riot at Hongkong, 1884. Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok,

1893.

Attuck on foreigners at Wenchow, 1884.

Typhoon at Hongkong, 1894.

French expedition left Chefoo for Corea, 1866. Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir

William Des Vœux, K.C.M.G., 1887. 17TH AFTER TRINITY,

H.R.H. Prince Alfred visited Peking, but not received by the Emperor, 1869. Grest public meeting at Hongkong to consider Increase of crime in Colony, 1878. Supplementary Treaty signed at the Bogue, 1848. French landing party at Tamsui

repulsed, 1884. Death of Lady Robinson, wife of the Governor of Hongkong, 1894.

Shanghai captured, 1841. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection of Tientsin-Kaiping Railway, 1898, Wreck off the Pescadores of the Norwegian str. "Normand," with loss

of all on board except two, 1892.

Mon.

1

8

The

Tues. 2

Wed. 3

09 19

9

10

Thur. 4

11

Frid.

12

Sat

13

Sun.

7

14

Mon.

8

15

Tues.

9

16

Wed. 10

17

Thur. 11

18

Frid. 12

19

Sat.

13

20

Sun.

14

21

Mon. 15

22

Tues. 16

23

Wed. 17

24

Thur.

18

25

scheme

Frid.

Sat.

19

26

Great fire in Hongkong, 1859. Great typhoon at Formosa, 1881.

20

27

Sun.

21

28

19TH AFTER TRINITY.

The Shanghai and Woosung railway closed by the Chinese

Mon.

22

29

2

W 19

Tues. 23

Wed. 24

Thur. 25

29 * * * * *N* 882

Frid. 26 Sat. 27 Sun. 28

Mon.

29

7

Tues.

Wed.

30

with loss of 125 lives, 1892.

The first Chinese merchant steamier (the “

Lord Napier died at Macao, 1934. Wreck off the Pescadores of the P. & O. str.“ Bokhara,"

'Meifoo") left Hongkong for London with passengers to establish a Chinese firin there, 1881. Revolt in the Philippines, 1872.

Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. First railway in Japan officially opened by the

Mikado, 1872.

18TH AFTER TRINITY.

coolies on board, 1859.

Flora Temple" lost in the China Sea, with upwards of S00

Explosion on the Chinese trooper “* Kungpai,” loss of 500 lives, 1896

Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1886.

St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. During piracy on board the British

str. "Greyhound," 1885,

At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China a

of reconstruction was approved, 1892.

Terrific typhoon at Manila; enormnous damage to property, 1882.

Government, 1977.

H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Shanghai, 1869. Cosmopolitan Dock opened, 1875.

Death, at Saigon, of M. Filippini, Governor of Cochin-China, 1887.

58 piratical vessels destroyed by Captains Hay and Wilcox, H.M. ships "Columbine

and “Fury,” 1849,

The Japanese cross the Yalu, 1894.

Treaty of Whampoa between France and China signed, 1844. Kahding recaptured by

the Allies, 1862.

Chin-lien-cheng taken by the Japanese, 1894.

20TX

AFTER TRINITY. Serious earthquake in Central Japan, 7,500 persons killed, 1891. Attempted insurrection at Canton, 1895, Portuguese frigate “D, Maria II." blown up at Macao, 1850,

8 Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Fenghuang taken by the Japanese, 1894.

31

9

H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Hongkong, 1809. Ta-lien-wan and Kinchow taken by

the Japanese, 1894.