THE CALENDAR FOR 1908
SEPTEMBER–80 DAYS
xix
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
...6h. 07, 6h. 39m.
1906
1907
15th ... ..........6h. 01m.
6h. 25m.
Maximum
.85.3
85.1
Minimum
.77.0
76.6
MOON'S PHASES
d. h. ۱۳۰
Mean
.........81.0
80 6
BAROMETER, 1906
First Quarter
4
4
51
A.M.
Full Moon
10
8
23
P M.
Last Quarter
17
6
33
P.M
New Moon
25
10
59
P.M.
Mean........
.29.81
1906
RAINFALL
1907
20.595 inches
19.456 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 7 and 8
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Tues.
I 1
6
Wed. 2
7
Thur.
3
3
Frid.
Sat. !
10
Sun.
11
Mon.
7
12
Tues.
13
Wedd.
14
Thur.!
10
15
Frid.
=
11
16
Sat.
12
Sun
13
Mon. 14
Tues.
15
Wed. 16
Thur.
17
Frid. 18
Sat.
19
Sun.
20
Mon.
21
Tues. 22
Wed.
Thur.
23
29
12 2 87 2** **5* 8
21
29 37** *
i7
18
19
20
21
22
23
21
25
26
27
23
Frid. 25
1
Sat.
26
Sun. Mon.
27
28
N*
233
Tues.
29
5
Wed.
30
6
CHRONOLOGy of RamaRKABLE EVENTS
Ma. Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870. Foundation stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890, Chinese Imperial Decree published announcing a decision to grant Constitutional Government.
Arrival of the "Vega" at Yokohama, after having discovered the North-East Passage, 1879. Kinochau declared a free port, 1898. Japanese occupied Lion-yang, capturing vast stores of ammunition and provisions, 1804.
Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894. Disastrous floods at Shanghai, 1904. Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied flects under Admiral Kuper, 1964. Death of Tso Tsung-tang at Fouchow, 1885. Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty signed.
1902.
12TH AFTER TRINITY. H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1860. Chinese Court left Hsianfu on the way to Peking, 1901. 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.
Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1967.
Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1859.
1887.
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, Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new Treaty with Japann, 1890, Japanese flagship Mikasa foundered as the result of an explosion in Sasebo harbour, with a loss 599 men, 1905. Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung-chang, 1876.
13TH AFTER Trinity. Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891 Chinese transport **Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887.
Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1891.
New Convention between Germany and Chiua ratified at Peking, 1881.
The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese, losing five
vessis, 1894.
Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889. Loss in Kii Channel, near Kobe, of the Turkish frigate 'Ertogrul," with 567 lives, 1890. Count von Wallersee, Allied Generalissimo, reached Hongkong, 1990. Typhoon at Hongkong the most disas.
trous in the Colony's history, 1908.
14th after TRINITY. Riots at Kumchuk, Kwangtung, 1900. Count von Waldersee reached Shanghai, 1900.
Typhoon at Swatow, 1891.
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U.S. brig “Lubra" taken by pirates, 1963. 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, 1889. 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. Paring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok Street, Hongkong, by armed robbers, 1879. Arrival of Governor Sir Henry A. Blake in Hongkong, 1898. Jubilee of Dr. A. H. Graves' missionary labours at Canton celebrated, 1906. Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.
15th after TriniTT. Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840,
Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1897. Death of Hon.
Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1839. Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1865. 8. 9. 'Charterhonse" foundered in a typhoon off Hainan Head, 70 persons drowned,
1906.
All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 1841. S. 8. Hsiesho sank after striking
a mine in Pechili Gulf, 1905.
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