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THE CALENDAR FOR 1916

SEPTEMBER–30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

.6h. 06m. ..6h. 10m.

6h. 40m.

1914

1915

6h. 27m.

Maximum

.85.4

85.4

Minimum

.76.2

76.9

Mean

.80.4

80.9

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. m.

BAROMETER, 1915

First Quarter

5

0

26

P.M.

Mean

29.86

Full Moon

12

4 31

A.M.

Last Quarter

19

1

35

P.M.

1914

RAINFALL

1915

New Moon

27

3

34

P.M.

19.980 inches

5.715 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF 8 and 9

WEEK MONTH

MOONS

Frid.

1

4

Sat.

2

5

Sun.

3

6

Mon.

4

7

Tues. 5

8

Wed. 6

Thur. 7

Frid. ४

Sat.

88×

10

11

9

12

Sun.

10

13

Mon. 11

14

Tues. 12

15

Wed. 13

16

Thur. 14

17

Frid. 15

18

Sat.

16

19

Sun. 17

Mon. 18

Tues. 19

Wed. 20 Thur.

23

21

24

Fri.

Sat.

22

25

23

26

2 22 ***&

22 22 2 3

20

21

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Foundation stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890, Chinese Imperial Decree published announcing a decision to grant Constitutional Government. Exten. sive floods in Shantung, 1914.

Arrival of the "Vega" at Yokohama after having discovered the North-East Passage, 1879. Kiaochau declared a free port, 1898. Japanese occupied Lioa-yang, capturing vast stores of ammunition and provisions, 1904.

Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894. Disastrous floods at Shanghai. 1904. Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1964.

Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty signed, 1902.

Chinese Court left Hsianfu President of the U.S.A.,

H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1860.

on the way to Peking, 1901. Assassination of Mr. McKinley, 1901. Sir James Mackay's Treaty with China signed, 1902. Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891. Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867. H.L.H. Prince Tsai Haun visits Hongkong, 1909. Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1859. Floods near Swatow

rendering a million people destitute, 1911. Riots in Szechuan to protest against the use of foreign capital for railway construction, 1911.

Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property in Shameen, 1883. British gunboat “Wasp" left Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more, 1887. Death of Sir Cland MacDonald, former Minister at Peking and Tokio, 1915. Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new Treaty with Japan, 1890. Japanese flagship "Mikasa" foundered as the result of an explosion in Sasebo harbour, with a loss 599 men, 1905.

Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung-chang, 1876.

Public Meeting in Hongkong with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese Customs' cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891. Funeral of Emperor Mutsuhito, 1912.

Chinese transport "Waylee” driven ashore on Pescadores, upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887.

Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1894.

New Convention between Germany and Chiua ratified at Peking, 1881.

The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese, losing five

vessels, 1894.

Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889. Logg in Ki Channel, near

Kobe, of the Turkish frigate “Ertogrul,” with 567 lives, 1890.

Typhoon at Hongkong, the most disastrous in the Colony's history, 1906. Allied Generalissimo reached Hongkong, 1900. Riots at Kumchuk, Kwangtung, 1900.

Count von Waldersee reached Shanghai, 1900. Sir Robert Hart died, 1911. Typhoon at

Swatow, 1891.

Chinese Govt. signed a contract with Messrs. Samuel & Co., of London, for a loan of

$10,000,000 for the development of Hankow, 1914.

U. S. brig "Lubra" taken by pirates, 1866. Terrific typhoon in Hongkong and Macao, many thousands of lives lost, 1874. Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association inaugurated 1904, Prize Court in Hongkong condemned H.A.L. "Frisia" captured by H.M.S. "Triumph", 1914.

H.M.S. "Rattler" lost off Japan, 1868. Piratical attack on the German barque "Apenrade,” near Macao, 1869. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877. Bomb thrown at Chinese Commissioners when about to leave Peking for Europe, 1905.

Arrival of Governor Sir Henry A. Blake in Hongkong, 1898. Jubilee of Dr. A. H. Graves'

missionary labours at Canton celebrated. 1906.

Sun. 24

27

Mon. 25

28

Tues. 26

29

Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834.

Wed. 27

1

Thur 28

2

Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840. Lord Kitchener in Hongkong, 1909. Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1887.

wrecked near Hainan Strait, 1910.

H.A.L. "Lydia"

Frid. 29

3

Sat.

30

4

MICHAELMAs Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1865. S.S. "Charterhouse" foundered in a typhoon off Hainan Head, 70 persons drowned, 1906. All the Bogue forts destroyed by the British fleet, 1841. S. S. "Hsiesho" sank after striking

a mine in Pechili Gulf, 1905,