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THE CALENDAR FOR 1912

FEBRUARY-29 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

........7h. 04m.

6h. 10m.

1910

1911

15th

...6h. 56m

6h. 19m.

Maximum

....64.7

65.5

Minimum

.55.9

56.2

Mean

.60.0

60.2

MOON'S PHASES

d. h.

m.

Barometer, 1911

Full Moon

3

58

A.M.

Mean......

..30.20

Last Quarter 10

8

51

A.M.

New Moon

18

44

P.M.

1910

RAINFALL

1911

First Quarter 26

3

27

A.M.

0.405 inches

0.000 inches

Days of Days of

WREK

MONTH

12 & 1 MOON

Thur.

1

14

Frid.

Sat. Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

03.00 **

LO CO

2

15

16

4 17

18

19

CHRONOLOGy or RemarKABLE EVENTS

The Additional Article to Inhabitants of Hongkong declared British subjects, 1841.

Chefoo Convention came into force,1887. Mrs. Carew sentenced to death at Yokohama

First for the murder of her husband; sentence commuted to penal servitude, 1897. meeting of International Commission on Opium at Shanghai, 1909.

The German Club at Hongkong opened, 1872. Weihaiwei citadel captured by Japaness,

1895.

SEPTUAGESIMA. Great robbery in the Central Bank, Hongkong, discovered, 1885.

Agreement opening West River signed, 1897.

Anti-foreign riot at Chinkiang, foreign houses burned and looted, 1889.

The Spanish Envoy Halcon arrived at Macao to demand satisfaction nom the Chinese for the burning of the Spanish brig “Bilbaino," 1840. Japan broke on diplomatic relations with Russia, 1904. Japanese str. "Tatsu Maru” seized by Chinese gunboats near Macao for alleged sunuggling arms, 1908

Suez Canal adopted as the regular route for the Eastern Mails, 1558.

The Spanish fleet leaves the port of Cavite, by order of the Governor of Manila, Hostilities between Russia and Japan begun for the purpose of taking Formosa, 1626.

by Russian gunboat off Chemulpo, 1904. Japanese made a successful torpedo attack at midnight on Russia's Port Arthur squadron, 1904. The "Henrietta Maria" was found drifting about in the Palawan Passage, captain, crew, and 250 coolies missing, 1857. Muruer of Messrs. Kiddle and Sutherland at Mengka on Yunnan border, 1900. Naval fight at Port Arthur between Japanese and Russian fleets with disastrous consequences to the latter, 194.

SEXAGESIMA. The Japanese constitution granting representative government proclaimed

by the Emperor in person at Tokyo, 1889.

Accession of the Emperor of Japan, 1867. Outbreak of convicts in Singapore Gaol, 1875. Surrender of Liukungtao Island forts and remainder of the Chinese fleet to the Japanese, 1895,

1872.

Ports of Hongkong and Tinghai declared free, 1841.

垂直

S. Valentine's Day. Tung Wa Hospital, Hongkong, opened by Sir R. G. MacDonnell,

The Chinese frigate

Yu-yuen " and corvelte "Chin-cheng" sunk by the French in Sheipoo harbour, 1885. Insurgents evacuated Shanghai, 1855. Stewart scholarship at Central School, Hongkong,

founded, 1884. Alice Memorial Hospital, Hongkong, opened, 1887.

Thur.

∞ -1

7

8

2220

21

Frid.

22

Sat. 10

23

Sun. 11

Mon. 12

Tues. 13

25 26

Wed,

14

Thur.

15

Frid.

16

Sat.

17

**** 7 8 8 8

24

27

28

29

30

Sun.

18 N. Y.

Mon.

19

Tues.

20

Wed.

21

423

Thur. 22

Frid. 23

Sat. 24

Sun. 25

6

7

Mon. 26

9

Tues. 27

10

Wed. 28 Thur. 29

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Capture of the Sulu capital by the Spaniards, 1876.

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QUINQUAGESIMA. The U.S. paddle man-of-war

Rock, near Swatow, 1883.

"Ashuelot” wrecked on the East Lammook

Lord Amherst's Embassy, returning from China, shipwrecked in the Java Sea, 1817.

ASH WEDNESDAY. Mr. A. R. Margary, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, was murdered at Manwyne, Yunnan,by Chinese, 1875. Statue of Li Hung Chang unveiled at Shanghai, 1906. The Emperor Tao-kwang died, 1850 (reigned 30 years). Massacre of missionaries a

Nanchang, 1906

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Queen Hostilities between England and China recommenced, 1841. Steamer

captured and burnt by pirates, 1857. First stone of the Hongkong City Hall laid, 1867. Yotsai" Chusan evacuated by the British troops, 1841. Explosion of boiler of the str.,

between Hongkong and Macao; six Europeans and thirteen Chinese killed and vessel destroyed, 1884.

18T IN LENT. Captain Da Costa and Lieut. Dwyer murdered at Wong-ma-kok, in Hong- kong, 1849. Chinese Imperial Enet issued dismissing the Dalai Ljama of Tibet, 1910. Bogue Forts, Canton, destroyed by Sir Gordon Bremer, 1841. Hongkong police chop

burnt, 1884. Marriage of the Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1889.

Treaty of peace between Japan and Corea signed at Kokwa, 1876. Evacuation of

Port Hamilton by the British forces, 1887.