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THE CALENDAR FOR 1912

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

1st............6h. 29m. 5h. 45m.

15th............6h. 37m. 5h. 39m.

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. m.

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1910 1911

Maximum

73.3

73.0

Minimum Mean

.64.7 65.7

.....68.7

69.1

Barometer, 1911

Last Quarter 2

11

38

P.M.

New Moon

9

10

05

A.M.

First Quarter 17 6

43

A.M.

Full Moon

25

0

12

P.M.

Mean....

...........30.71

1910

RAINFALL

2,535 inches

1911 2.720 inches

21

Days of Dats op | 9 and 10

MONTH Moons

88-8 UA WŁO

=

** *NGRA-

Chronology of Remarkable EventA

The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876, Death of Alexander II., Czar of Russia, 1894. Riotous disturbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 190s.

Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston " off North Luzon.

Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee 1839.

Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.

Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,” 1880.

Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.

**

The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. Sandpiper" and "Canton City "sunk. Funeral of Empress-Dowager of China, 1909. Independence of Kwangtung province announced 1911.

2 23RD AFTER TRINITY. Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens,

Hongkong, 1887.

H.M.S. "Racehorse” wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General

of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901.

Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the

Palace, Peking, 1894. Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

interrupted, 1909.

Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germaus took possession of Kinochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908.

WKIK

Frid.

1

23

Sat.

2

24

Sun.

3

25

22ND AFTER Trinity,

Mon.

26

Tues.

27

Wed. Thur.

6

28

29

Fri.

Sat.

30 1

Sun.

10

Mon.

11

3

Tues.

12

4

Wed. 13

5

Thur. 14

6

Frid. 15

Sat. 1 16

8

Sun. 1 17

9

Mon. 18

10

Tues.

19

11

Wed. 20

12

Thur. 21

13

Frid. 22

14

Sat

23

15

Sun.

24

16

Mon.

25

17

Tues.

26

18

Wed.

27 Thur. 28

19

20

Frid. 29

21

30

22

Sat.

27 **** *** 2 8

23

25

H. M. gunboat "Guat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. ** Wah Yeung" by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Railway, 1:03. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Âu, 1908.

21TH AFTER TRINITY. Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843.

Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.

Celebration of

Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened.

General Strike of printers commenced in Hongkong, 1911.

Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several

hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 19:0.

Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.

Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864. Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow 1911.

Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877. Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante” at

Woosung, 1881.

25TH AFTER TRINITY,

Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871,

Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.

Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.

M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder of

the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.

Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. Blake Pier,

Hongkong, opened, 1900.

Murder of captain and four men of the British barque "Crofton," near Ku-lan, 1869. Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890. Revolt of troops at Macno, 1910.

S. Andrew's Day. S. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Raavenna in the Inland Ses, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu-

tionists and Imperialists, 1911.