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THE CALENDAR FOR 1909

JUNE-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st......

..5h. 39m.

6h. 51m.

1907

1908

15th............5h. 39m.

6h. 07m.

Maximum

...84.3

83.6

Minimum

..76.4

77.2

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

.79.9 80.2

d. h.

m.

BAROMETER, 1908

Full Moon

4

2

23

A.M.

Mean.....

29.78

Last Quarter

11

10

43

A.M.

New Moon

18

7

28

A M.

1907

RAINFALL

First Quarter 26

43

A.M.

13.170 inches

1908 15.245 inches

DAYS OF Days of

WEEK

MONTH

4 and 5 Mooxs

Tues

1

14

Wed. 2

15

Thur. 3

16

Frid.

4

17

Sat.

5

18

Sun.

6

19

Mon.

7

20

Tues.

8 21

Wed. 9

22

Thur. 10

23

Fri.

11

24

Sat.

12

25

Sun. 13

26

Mon. 14 Tues.

15

27

28

Wed. 16

Thur. 17

33

29

30

Frid. 18

Sat.

19

Sun. 20

3

Mon.

21

4

Tues. 22

Wed. 23

Thur. 24

7

Frid. 25 Sat. 26

Chronology of Remarkable Events

Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1978. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1831 Canton-Samshul Railway completed

Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1971. Formal transfer of Formosa fro:n

China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900.

Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1883. Death of Sir Arthur Kennedy, 1883. Russell & Co. suspend payment, 1801. Kelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895.

Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1880. West River opened, 1897.

Departure of the first 0. & (). steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wuhsueli, 1891. Communication with Peking eut off, 1900.

TRINITY Sunday. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 des-

troyed, and many lives lost, 1864.

Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kiuklang, 1891, Hongkong-Canton steamer Poros

wrecked, 1908.

Destruction of Mission premises at Wusieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891.

Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & Ô. steamer "Aden” wrecked off

Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897

Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876.

Peking, 1900.

Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 164′′,

Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.

Admiral Seymour starts for

18t after TRINITY. British steamer “Carisbrooke” fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser 1875. Imperil Edict condemning attacks on Foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, murdered in Peking, 1900.

Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu (Russo-Japan War) Russians defeated

with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904.

Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1893. British barque ** Cæsar” and Danish schooner "Carl” taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1986. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867. Russian squadron sank Japanese transport Hitachi, badly injured Sudo, 1904. Woosung taken, 1842.

First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1900. Explosion of the “Union Star" at Shanghai, 17 persons killed and 10 wounded, 1862,

Disastrous inundation at Foochow, 2,000 lives lost, 1877.

Shanghai occupied by British forces, 1842.

2ND AFTER TRINITY, Macartney's embassy arrived in China, 1793. Attack on mission

premises at Haiman city, 1891. Unprecedented floods in the West River, 1908. Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.

Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebra-

tion, 1897.

Ki-ying visits Hongkong, 1843 Shock of Earthquake in Hongkong, 1874. French troops surprised by Chinese near Langson, 1884. Russian Baltic Fleet, after remaining six weeks in Tonkin waters sailed from Kamranh Bay northward, 1905.

Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. Treaty of Nanking

exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862.

8

9

Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.

between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.

Additional Convention

Sun. 27

10

Mon. 28

11

fues.

29

12

Wed.

30

13

3rd after TRINITY. Treaty between France and China signed, 1858. Confiscation of the

str. "Prince Albert" by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1865. Agreement effected between Great Britain and the United States for reciprocal protection

of British and American Trade Marks in China, 1905,

The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873-

Indian Mints closed to silver, 1898.

British expedition to China arrived, 1347. Opening of a section of the Shanghai an

Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891.