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THE CALENDAR FOR 1997

SEPTEMBER-30 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

xix

SUNRISE

SUNSET

•

1st

...6h. 07m.

6h. 39m.

1905 1906

15th

....6h. Olm.

6h. 25m.

Maximum

...84.7

85.3

Minimum

.76.5

77.0

Mean

.80.1

81.0

MOON'S PHASES

તા. h. m.

BAROMETER, 1906

New Moon

8

5 04

A.M.

Mean

.29.77

First Quarter 15

11

40

A.M.

Full Moon

22

5

34

A.M.

Last Quarter 29

7

31

P.M.

1905 3.195 inches

RAINFALL

1906

30.595 inches

Days of Days of

WEEK

MONTH

7 and 8 Moons

Sun.

1

24

Mon.

25

Tues.

3

26

Wed. 4

27

Thur.

5

28

Frid.

6

29

Sat.

7

30

Sun.

8

Mon.

9

Tues.

10

123

Wed.

11

Chronology of Remarkable Events

14TH AFTER TRINITY. Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an

assassin, 1870. Foundation stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1900. Arrival of the “Vega" at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage, 1879. Kiaochau declared a free port, 1898. Japanese occupied Liao-yang, capturing vast stores of ammunition and provisions, 1904.

Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894. Disastrons floods at Shanghai, 1904.

Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1864*

Death of Tso Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885. Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty signed.

1902.

Chinese Court left

H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1869.

Haianfu on the way to Peking, 1961. Assassination of Mr. McKinley, President of the U.S.A., 1901. Sir James Mackay's Treaty with China signed, 1902. Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891.

15TH AFTER TRINITY. Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1887.

Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1859,

Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen, 1983. 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, 1895. Japanese flagship Mikasa fönndered as the result of an explosiou in Sasebo harbour, with a loss 599 men, 1905.

Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hungchang, 1876. Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese

Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1991.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Thur. 12 Frid. 13

234 4 47

5

6

14

7

15

8

16

9

16TH AFTER TRINITY. Chinese transport "Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards

of 370 lives lost, 1887. Pingyang capturedby the Japanese, 1891. New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1881

17

10

Wed. 18

11

Thur. 19

Frid. 20

Sat

Sun

Mon.

Tues.

**22* *

12

13

21

14

15

23

16

23456

24

17

Wed.

25

18

Thur. 26

Frid.

Sat.

28

Sun.

29

Mon

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30

2722 2

19

20

21

22

23

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

vessels, 1804.

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Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889. Loss in Kii Channel, near Kobe, of the Turkish frigate Ertogrul," with 587 lives, 1890. Count von Waldersee, Allied Generalissimo, reached Hongkong, 1900. Typhoon at Hongkong the most disas

trous in the Colony's history, 1906.

Riots at Kumchuk, Kwangtung, 1900,

Count von Waldersee reached Shanghai, 1910.

17TH AFTER TRINITY. Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.

U. 8. brig “Lubra” taken by pirates. 1866. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao, many thousands of lives lost, 1874. Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association inaugurated 1904.

H.M.S. "Rattler" lost off Japan, 1869. Piratical attack on the German barque "Apenrade," near Macao, 1889. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed 1877. Bomb thrown at Chinese Commissioners when about to leave Peking for Europe, 1905. Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok Street, Hongkong, by armed robbers. 1878. Arrival of Governor Sir Henry A. Blake in Hongkong, 1899. Jubilee of Dr. A. H. Graves' messionary labours at Canton celebrated, 1906. Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840,

Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hon.

Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.

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18TH AFTER TRINITY. Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1865, S. 8. Charterhonse” foundered in a typhoon off Hainan Head, 70 persons drowned, 1906.

All the Bogueforts detroved by the British fleet, 1841. 8. 8. Hsiesko sank after striking

a mine in Pechili Gulf, 1905.

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