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THE CALENDAR FOR 1911

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st ............7h. 05m.

5h. 49m.

1909

1910

15th.....

....7h. 07m

5h. 58m.

Maximum

...64.1

66.5

Minimum

.57.6

57.8

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

...60.6

61.8

d.

h.

m.

New Moon

1

0

21

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1910.

First Quarter 8

2

20

P.M.

Mean..

..30.11

Full Moon

15

6

26

A.M.

Last Quarter

22

2

21

P.M.

New Moon

30

45

P.M.

1909 1.460 inches

RAINFALL

1910 0.885 inches

11

WEEK

Mostu

MOONS

Sun.

1

1

Mon.

2

2

Tues.

3

3

Wed.

Thur.

DATS OF DAYS OP] 11 & 12

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

1ST AFTER CHRISTMAS, Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 men, 546 guns and vast stores of ainmunition, 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 Ilongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884.

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

Commissioner

Yeh captured, 1858. Chinese Government definitely refused to submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.

Frid.

Sat.

7

EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Sun.

Mon.

9

9

Tues. 10 Wed. 11

10

11

Thur. 12

12

ลง

Frid. 13

13

Sat.

14

14

Sun. 15

15

Mon. 16

16

Tues. 17

17

Wed. 18

18

Thur. 19

19

Frid.

20

20

Sat.

21

Sun.

22

Mon.

23

Tues.

24

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

Sun,

7 2** **** 28 a

21

7287

22

23

24

25

25

26

26

27

27

28

28

29

2

Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894.

Mon.

Tues.

30

31

29 N. Y.

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1560. Marriage of the Mikado of

Japan, 1809.

Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Ilongkong, 1901.

Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1891. Two Americans and one Finu hanged in Hongkong gaol, 1905. II.E. 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, 1846. Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China

str. “Yik Sing" lost at The Brothers, 1908.

Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, (lestroyed, 1889.

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

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

opened, 1883.

Altempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shanghai, 1891, Collision near Woosung between P. & 0. steamer "Nepaul and Chinese transport "Wan-nien-ching"; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Hongkong ceded to Great Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London,

1877. Police Sergt. Mills shot dead by armed robbers at Yaumati, 1909. 3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1865. King Edward's

Accession, 1902.

Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida "lost

through collision with P. & O. steamer **

Boinbay," near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841, S. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrifo

fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.

Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the

Christian faith in China, 1733.

4TH AFTER EPIPHANY. Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money. 1846. British gunboat patrol with drawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flowerboats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909

18T AFTER EPIPHANY. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1862. British str. “

sank off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1305,

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