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THE CALENDAR FOR 1910

11

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

.7h. 05m.

5h. 49m.

1908

1909

15th.

.7h. 07m

5h. 58m.

Maximum

..66.8

64.1

Minimum

..58.1

57.6

Mean

.62.0

60.6

MOON'S PHASES

d.

h.

111.

BAROMETER, 1909.

Last Quarter

3 9

27

P.M.

Mean

.30.10

New Moon

11

7

51

P.M.

First Quarter

18

6

21

P.M.

1908

RAINFALL

1909

Full Moon

25

7

51

P.M.

2.640 inches

1.460 inches

DAYS OF Days of

11 & 12

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Sat.

1

20

Sun.

2

21

Mon.

3

Tues.

4

Wed. 5

Thur. 6 Frid. 7

26

2 ** 22

22

23

24

25

Sat.

8

27

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

11

E8 ©

9

28

10

29

1

Wed. 12

2

Thur.

13

3

Frid. 14

4

Sat.

Wed.

Thur.

Sun. 16

Mon. 17

Tues.

12 FOR 2

18

6789

19

20

10

15

5

Frid. 21

11

Sat.

22

12

Sun. 23

13

Mon.

24-

14

Tues. 25

15

Wed. 26

16

Thur.

27

17

Frid. 28

18

Sat.

29

19

Sun.

30

20

Mon. 31

21

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1879. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 men, 648 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gunboats and destroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1905.

1ST AFTER CHRISTMAS. 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.

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

Yeh captured, 1859.

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 Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1802. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. IST AFTER EPIPHANY. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1860. 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 1891. Two Americans and one Finn hanged in Hongkong gaol, 1905. ILE. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909.

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 to

open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1840.

Indo-China str. "Yik Sing" lost

Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871. Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857.

at The Brothers, 1908.

2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.

to Peking, 1902.

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

Chinese Imperial Court returned

Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1811. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

opened, 1863.

Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shanghai, 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport 'Wan-nien-ching latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Hongkong coded to Great Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

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Death of Queen Victoria, 191. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London,

1877. Police Sergt. Mills shot dead by armed robbers at Yaumati, 1909. P. & O. steamer “Ñiphon" lost off Amoy, 1865. King Edward's Accession, 1902.

3RD AFTER EPIPHANY.

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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, 1000

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. S. 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.

SEXAGESIMA. Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gun- boat patrol with drawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flowerboats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909.

Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894.

Commissioner