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THE CALENDAR FOR 1904

JANUARY-31 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

SUNRISE

1st

...6h. 42m.

SUNSET 5h. 26m.

1902 1903

15th

.6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

Maximum .............78.0 63.0

Minimum

..48.5

54.2

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

....63.1

58.3

xlv

d. h.

m.

Full Moon

3 1

47

P.M.

Barometer, 1903.

Last Quarter

Mean...

.30.21

10 5

10

P.M.

New Moon

17

First Quarter 26

11 47

4 41

A.M.

A.M.

1902 0.285 inches

RAINFALL

1903

1.370 inches

DAYS OF

|DATE OF | 11 & 12

MONTH Mooks

Frid.

1

14

Sat.

15

Sun.

16

Mon.

17

18

19

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

Sren. 10

21

22

2° 207 2 **** *22

23

Kon 11

24

Tues.

12

25

Wed.

13

26

Thur. 14

27

Frid. 15

Sat.

16

Fron

17

2

Иon. 18 Tues. 19

lied. 20

Thur.

Frid.

21

** F** R≈ 2N2

** *** 23

678

Sat.

Sren

Mon.

9

Tues.

26

10

Wed. Thur. Frid.

27

11

1

28

29

Sat. 30

14

Sun. 31

15

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CHRONOLOGy of Remarkable EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1888. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903.

2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a

of the Legislative member Council, 1884.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840.

Yeh captured, 1859.

Commissioner

EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. “Namchow" sank off Cup Chỉ, near

Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of

Јарал, 1989.

1st after EpiphANY. Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901.

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

1891.

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 United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857.

Severe frost in Hongkong, 1898. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.

2nd after EpipIANY. The Tal-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1887.

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

opened, 1883.

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

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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, 1891.

Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1888.

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3RD AFTER EPIPHANT. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida" lost through collision with P. & Ö. steamer "Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841.

8. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. 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.

Lord Saltoun left China with 88,000,000 ransom money', 1846.

Septuagesima Sunday. Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1805.