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THE CALENDAR FOR 1903

SEPTEMBEK-30 DAYS

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SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

..5h. 44m.

6h. 16m.

1901

1902

..sh. 48ın.

6h. 02m.

Maximum

.90.8

91.2

Minimunu

.73.5

69.6

Mean

.80.3

80.8

MOON'S PHASES

d.

h.

Ill.

BAROMETER, 1902

Full Moon

7

26

A.M.

Mean

..29.98

Last Quarter

14 9

20

P.M.

New Moon

21

0

37

P.M.

First Quarter 28

14

P.M.

1901 3.890 inches

RAINFALL

1902

0.635 inches

Dus or ¿Days of

7 any! 3

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Turi.

1

10

Wed.

21

11

Thur.

12

Frid.

4

13

Nat.

5

14

Sun.

6

15

Mon.

7

16

Tues.

17

Wed.

9

18

Thur. 10 . 19

Fril 11

20

Sat. | 12

21

SHA.

13

22

Mon. 14

23

Tues. 15

24

Wed. 16

25

Thur. 17

26

Friel.

18

27

CHRONOLOGY OF Remarkable EveNTS.

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

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

Arrival of the "Vega” at Yokobama, after having discovered the North-East Passage,

1879. Kinochau declared a free port, 1898.

Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894.

Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied flects under Admiral Kuper, 1964.

Death of Tso Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885,

15TO AFTER TRINITY, H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1940, Imperial Court left Hsianfu on the way to Peking, 1961. Assassination of Mr. McKinley, President of the U.S.A.. 1001. Sir James Mackay's Treaty with Chiua signed, 1902. Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891.

Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867.

Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1859.

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,

1887. Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new

Treaty with Japan, 1800,

14TH AFTER TRINITY. 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, 1801. Chinese transport

New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1981.

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

vessels, 1894.

Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1989. Loss in Kii Channel, near Kobe, of the Turkish trigate""* Ertugrul," with 567 lives, 1990. Count von Waldersee,

非常

Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887. Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1891.

Allied Generalissimo, reached Hongkong, 1900,

Nat.

19

28

Riots at Kumchuk, Kwangtung, 1900,

SKH.

20

*.

21

Tue

22

Wed. 23

Thar.

24

Frid

Sat.

25

Suite Won. 28

THE

WAL

* *** * &

5

26

6

Lord Napier anived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

27

R

29

ย

30

10

15TH AFTER TRINITY.

Count von Waldersce renclied Shanghai, 19 0.

Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.

4°. 8. brig ** Lubra” taken by pirates, 1868. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao,

many thousands of lives lost, 1874.

0.4

+4

H.M.S. Rattler" lost off Japan, 1908, Piratical attack on the German barque Apenrade.” near Muono, 1809. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877,

Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok Street, Hongkong, by armed robbers,

1878. Arrival of Sir Henry A. Blake, 0.c.1,0., Governor of Hongkong, 1898,

187|| AFTER TRINITY, Commissioner Lin degraded, 1940,

Yellow River burst its banks in Honan: calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hou.

Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1989,

Michaelmas Day, Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 195.

All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 18417-

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