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THE CALENDAR FOR 1907

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JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

.7h. 05m.

5h. 49m.

1905

1906

15th.....

7h. 07m.

5h. 58m.

Maximum

.69.0

62.5

Minimum

...60.7

54.8

Mean

.64.3

58.4

MOON'S PHASES

d.

h.

m.

BAROMETER, 1906.

Last Quarter

7

10

47

P.M.

Mean...

.30.18

New Moon

14

1

57

P.M.

First Quarter

21

4

42

P.M.

Full Moon

29

9

45

P.M.

1905 1.800 inches

RAINFALL

1906

1.985 inches

DATS OF DATS or

11 & 12

WEEK

J

MONTH

MOONS

Tucs. i 1

17

Wed. 2

18

Thur. 3

19

Frid.

4

20

Sat.

5

21

Sun.

6

22

Mon.

7

Tues.

24

Wed. 9

Thur. 10

Frid.

11

2=

Sat.

12

Sun.

13

2 ** ** ** ** * 2

23

25

26

27

28

29

Mon.

14

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1888. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 378 officers, 23,491 men, 540 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gunboats and destroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1905.

First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903.

First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884.

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

Yeh captured, 1858.

EPIPHANT. 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 Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon,'1905, Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1800. Marriage of the Mikado of

Japan, 1869.

Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901. Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened

Two Americans and one Finu hanged in Hongkong gaol, 1905.

1891.

Tung-chi, Emperor of China died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875,

1st after EpipHANY, Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating

the intention to 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, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.

Commissioner

Tues. 15

Wed.

16

Thur.

17

Frid.

18

Sat.

19

− 2 3 4 O

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1880.

5

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

6

Sun.

20

Mon.

21

7 00

8

Tues.

22

9

Wed. 23 Thur. 24

10

11

Frid.

25

Sat.

26

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur. 31

** **22-

12

13

27

14

SEPTUAGESIMA.

28

15

29

16

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

opened, 1863.

2nd after EpiPHANY. Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer “Pekin" at

Shanghai, 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamier "Nepaul"

and Chinese transport "Wan-nien-ching "; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1801.

Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors

arrived in London, 1877.

P. & O. steamer “Niphon” lost off Amoy, 1805. King Edward's Accession, 1902. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida " lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1909)

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

Christian faith in China, 1733.

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30

17

18

Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money', Outer forts of Weihaiweiby captured Japanese, 1894.

1846.

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