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THE CALENDAR FOR 1913

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

...6h. 29m.

5h. 45m.

1911

1912

15th... ........6h. 37m.

5h. 39m.

Maximum

.73.0 74.4

Minimu

.65.7 64.9

Mean

...69.1

69.3

MOON'S PHASES

dl.

h.

m.

First Quarter

6 2

34

A.M.

Full Moon

14

[1

A.M.

Last Quarter

21

3

56

P.M.

New Moon

28

9

41

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1912

Mean....

.30.10

1911 2.720 inches

RAINFALL

1912

0,285 inches

Days of Days of | 10 & 11 ¦ WEEK ΜΟΝΤΗ MOONS

10 CO

CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable EventTS

The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Death of Alexander II

Czar of Russia, 1894. Riotous disturbances at Hongkong connected with boycott of Japanese goods, 190s.

24TH AFTER TRINITY.

Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston" off North Luzon. Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pes

1849,

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," 1800.

| Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.

25TIL AFTER TRINITY. The French repulsed in Coren, 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.

喝海

Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887.

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

of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Disturbance at shanghai, following measures to prevent a piague epidemic, 1910. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the

Palace, Peking, 1894.

Sat.

1

4

Sun.

2

Б

Mon.

6

Tues.

4

7

Wed.

5

8

Thur.

6

9

Fri.

10

Sat.

11

Sun.

12

Mon.

10

13

!

Tues. 11

14

Wed.!

12

15

Thur. 13

16

Frid. 14

17

Sat.

15

18

Sun.

16

19

Mon. 17

20

Tues.

18

21

Wed.

19

22

|

Thur. Frid. 21

20

23

24

1

Sat.

22

Sun

** ** * * *** *

Mon.

Tues. 25 Wed.! Thur.

2.5

26

24❘ 27

28

26

29

27

30

Frid. 1

28

Sat.

1

29

2

Sun.

30

3

1

Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong

interrupted, 1909.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1960. Celebration of Shanghai Jubiles, 1593. Germans took possession of Kisochan Bay, 1897. Death of the Chiuese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908. H. M. gunboat "Gunt" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. “Wak

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 Au, 1998. | 26T11 AFTER Trinity.

Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. | Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section -hanghai-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 Custoni 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, 1983. Rebels repulsed at Hanków 1911.

Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 80 lives lost, 1877. 27th AFTER TRINITY. Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in

the Bacchante" at Woosung, 1881.

Chinese commenced boycott of trams in Hougkong which insted seven weeks, 1912-3. Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868, Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1971,

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 Kit-lan, 1969.

Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 189*). Revol of troups at Macau, 1910,

ADVENT SUNDAY, S. Andrew's Day.

S. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser **Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & 0. steanier "Raavenna

in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lust, 1892, Armistico arranged

between Chinese Revolutionists and Imperialists, 1911.