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THE CALENDAR FOR 1914

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

...7h. 05m.

5h. 49m.

1912

1913

15th

7h. 07m.

5h. 58m.

Maximum

.60.2

64.5

Minimum

..54.5

54.8

MOON'S PHASES

d.

h.

First Quarter ↓

9

09 P.M.

Full Moon

12

1

09

P.M.

Last Quarter

19

30

A.M.

New Moon

26

2

31

P.M.

Mean

.57.3

59.2

BAROMETER, 1913.

Mean......

..30.21

1912

RAINFALL

2.710 inches

1913 1.925 inches

11

Days of DAYS OF¦ 12 & 1

WEEK

MONTH

MOON'S

Thur.

1

6

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1958, Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender l'ort Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 mien, 540 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also + battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gumboats and de- stroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 19905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sen as Provisional President, 1912. First Chinese Celebration of Western New Year, 19913,

First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884. Evanation of Shanghai completed, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted Appeal Court, Hougkong, 1913.

First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884,

2ND AFTER Christmas, Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, Commissioner Yeh captured, 1858. Chinese Government definitely refused to submit the Maceno boundary question to arbitration, 1910,

1840.

EPIPHANY.

Fearml fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.

Forts at Chuempi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1552. British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi, near Swatów ; about 150 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hikong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1869 Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901.

ist after ExipHANY, Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1972. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1501. Two Americans and one Fiùm hanged in Hongkong gaol, 1905. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1809.

Tung-chi, Emperðr of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1875,

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to

open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

Frid.

Sat.

Sun. │

Mon.

Tues.

11

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

9

Sat.

10

Sun.

11

E=NO HAS

10

12

13

14

15

16

Mon. 12

17

Tues. 13 Wed. 14

Thur. 15

Frid. 16

21

Sat.

17

Sun.

18

Mon. 19

Tues.

20

228 38SZ A

14

19

20

22

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1589.

23

24

25

Wed. 21

26

Tour. 22

27

Frid. 23 Sat. 24

28

29

Sun.

25

**** 287

30

N. Y.

2

28

3

30

5

31

Mon. 26 Tues. 27

Wed.

Thur, 29 Frist.

Sat.

Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. "Yik Sing" lost

at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.

2ND AFTER EpithAsy. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867. Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

opened, 1863.

"Pekin"

at Shanghai,

Attempt to set fire to the (. N. Cal's steamer

1801. Collision near Woosung between P. & 1. steamer Nepaul" and Chinese transport Wan-nien-ching " : latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Hongkong ceded to Great Britain 1941. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

..

Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.

Sir Henry May left. Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911.

P. & O. steamer “Niphon” lost off Amoy, 1868. King Edward s. Accession, 1902.

Matheus Rinci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette “Oneida " lost through collision with P. & 0. steamer "Bombay,” near Yokohama, 1970. Decree Announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900; 12 anarchists executed at Tokyo, 1911,

3RD AFTER EPIPHANY.

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. 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 the

Christian faith in China, 1733.

Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1848. British gunboat patrol with- drawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909

Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1994; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I., 1911.