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THE CALENDAR FOR 1915

JUNE-30 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

SUNRISE

SUNSET

1st

.5h. 39m.

7h. 01m.

15th

..........5h. 39m.

7h. 07m.

Maximum

1913 .85.6 86.6

1914

Minimum

.77.6 78.9

Mean

...81.2 82.0

MOON'S PHASES

d.

h.

m.

BAROMETER, 1914

Last Quarter

5 0

32

A.M.

Mean

.29.670

New Moon

13

2

57

A.M.

First Quarter

20

10 24

P.M.

1913

RAINFALL

Full Moon

27

0 27

P.M.

16.035 inches

1914 12.225 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF 4 and 5

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Tues. 1

19

Wed. 2

2)

Thur. 3

21

Fri.

4

Sat.

5

2233

Sun.

6

24

Mon.

7

7

25

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1878. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1987. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1891. Canton-Samshui Railway completed.

Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1971. Formal transfer of Formosa from

China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900. Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,00 persons, 1863. Death of Sir Arthur Kennedy, 1883. Russell & Co. suspend payment, 1891. Keelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895.

Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1893. West River opened, 1897. Departure of the first O. & O. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wusueh, 1891. Communica- tion with Peking cut off, 1900. French str. R. Lebandy pirated on West River, 1913. 1ST AFTER TRINITY. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroyed,

and many lives lost, 186 4.

"Powan

Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kiukiang, 1891. Hongkong-Canton steamer

wrecked, 1908. Tornado in Macao, 1913.

17

Tues.

8

26

Wed. 9

27

Destruction of Mission premises at Wusieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891. Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & O. steamer

Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897.

'Aden" wrecked off

Thur. 10

28

Frid. 11

29

Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.

¡S it.

12

30

Sun. 13

1

Mon. 14

2

Tues. 15

3

Wed.

16

Thur. 17

Frid. 18

Sat. 19

Sun.

20

Mon.

21

Tues.

Wed. 23

Thur. 24 Frid. 25

Sat.

¡Sun.

ON 22 222 22 & N

4

5

6

to

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

23

26

14

27

15

Mon. 28

16

Tues. 29

17

Wed. 30

18.

Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876. Admiral Seymour starts for

Peking, 1900.

Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.

2nd after TriNITY. British steamer “Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese

Customs cruiser, 1875. Imperial Edict conflemning attacks on foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, murdered in Peking, 1900.

Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu (Russo-Japan War), Russians defeated

with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904.

Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896. British barque “Cæsar" and Danish schooner "Carl" taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1968. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867. Russian squadron sank Japanese transport "Hitachi," badly injured "Sado," 1904. Hongkong Legislature passed Ordinances prohibiting circulation of foreign bank notes and foreign silver coins, 1914.

Woosung taken, 1842.

First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1900.

Death of Sir Hormusjee Mody, 1911.

Explosion of the "Union Star" at Shanghai, 17 persons killed and 10 wounded, 1862.

Disastrous inundation at Foochow, 2,000 lives lost, 1877.

Shanghai occupied by British forces, 1842.

3RD AFTER Trinity. Macartney's embassy arrived in China, 1793. Attack on mission

premises at Hainan city, 1891. Unprecedented floods in the West River, 1908. Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.

Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration, 1897.

Inauguration of Tsan Ching Yuan (Chinese Administration Council), 1914. Ki-ying visits Hongkong, 1843 Shock of earthquake in Hongkong, 1874. French troops surprised by Chinese near Langson, 1881. Russian Baltic Fleet, after remaining six weeks in Tonkin waters, sailed from Kamranh Bay northward, 1905.

Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. Treaty of Nanking exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. Foundation stone of new wing of Berlin Foundling House laid by Lady May, 1914. Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.

between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.

Additional Convention

4TH AFTER TRINITY, Treaty between France and China signed, 1858. Confiscation of the

str. "Prince Albert" by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1863. Agreement effected between Great Britain and the United States for reciprocal protection

of British and American Trade Marks in China, 1905.

The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873

Indian Mints closed to silver, 1893.

British expedition to China arrived, 1249. Opening of a section of the Shanghai and

Woosung Railway, 1870. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891.