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THE CALENDAR FOR 1917

APRIL-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

.....6h. 17m. ..........6h. 05m.

6h. 38m.

1915

1916

6h. 44m.

Maximum

78.7

75.3

Minimum

..71.3

67.1

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

...74.6

70.6

d. h.

m.

Full Moon

7

9

BAROMETER, 1916

49

P.M.

Last Quarter

Mean

29.96

15

4

12

A.M.

New Moon

21

10

1

P.M.

First Quarter

29

1 22

P.M.

1915 1.795 inches

RAINFALL

1916

4.295 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF 2 INT. & 3

WEER

MONTH

MOONS

Sun.

1

10

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thurs.

Fri.

Satur.

Sun.

N

11

12

13

5

14

6

15

16

00

17

13

Mon.

a

Tues.

10

19

Wed.

11

20

• ;hurs.

12

21

2

Fri.

13

Satur.

14

23

Sun.

15

24

Mon.

16

25

Tues.

17

21

Wed.

18

25

323

N

Thurs.

19

23

Fri.

20

29

Satur.

21

Sun.

22

Mon.

23

Tues.

21

Wed.

255

5

Thurs.

26

Fri.

Sat ur.

Su”.

M.n.

27

28

23

28

78

❤

30

10

PALM SUNDAY. The port of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876. The ports of Pakhoi, Wen

chow, Wuhu and Ichang opened, 1877. B. N. Borneo adopted the Straits Settlements currency, 1905. Dowager Empress of Japan died, 1914.

French flag hoisted at Kwang-chau-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory opened at Hong-

kong, 1900.

Tai On pirated between Hongkong and Kougmoon, 1913.

Protocol arranging the preliminaries of peace between France and China signed at Paris,

1885. The Tsarevitch and Prince George of Greece arrived in Hongkong, 1891. Bogue Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghai, 1897.

Attempt to destroy with dynamite the Prince Regent's Palace at Peking, 1910. GOOD FRIDAY, Convention between Sir John Francis Davis and the Viceroy Ki-ying

for the admission of Europeans into the city of Canton within two months, 1842. Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Indignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheelbarrow

Riot, 1897. Great powder explosion at Canton, 1903.

EASTER SUNDAY. Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886, Chinese Parliament inaugur-

ated 1913.

Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost, 1878. Tartar

General at Canton assassinated, 1911. 37,000 Christians butchered in Japan, 1738. Death at Peking of Marquis Tseng, 1890.

Count Okuma chosen Premier of Japan, 1914.

Presentation of colours to Hongkong Regiment, 1895. Russian flagship Petropavlovsk sunk hy a nine off Port Arthur, nearly every man drowned, including Adiniral Makaroff, 1904.

Soldiers' Club opened at Hongkong, 1900. Imperial Palace, Seoul, destroyed by fire,

1904. Aliens given the right to own land in Japan, 1910.

S. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552. Riots at Changsha, 1910.

British Flag hoisted at Taipohu, Kowloon New Territory, 1899. Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. Junk Bay Flour Mills, Hongkong, suspended operations, 1908.

Telegraph to Shanghai opened, 1871. Execution at Kowloon city of nineteen pirates, including "Namoa" pirates, 1891, Treaty of Peace between China and Japan signed at Shimonoseki, 1895.

Convention between China and Japan settling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885. The O. & O. steainer "San Pablo" wrecked near Turnahout, 1888. One-fourth of the opium divans at Shanghai closed, 1908. Town of Wagima, Japan, destroyed by fire, 1910,

The "Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1830. The

Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891.

Resignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897.

East India Company ceased trade with China, 1834. Arrival of Governor J. Pope Hennessy in Hongkong, 1877. Opening of new commercial port of Heungchow near Macao, 1909. Bank of China authorised to issue $3,000,000 in subsidiary notes, 1915. S. GEORGE'S DAY. P. M. steamer Asia wrecked near Foochow, 1911.

Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 1908. Cap- ture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882. First sod of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway cut at Shanghai, 1905.

FESTIVAL OF S. MARK. Foundation stone of Queen's College, Hongkong, laid, 1884.

Contract for Quintuple Loan of £25,000,000 signed at Peking, 1913.

Appointed by Chinese Government a Day of Prayer for Christian Churches, 1913. Ratifications of Corean Treaty with England exchanged, 1884. Privy Council for Japan constituted by Imperial decree, 1888. Sir F. D. Lugard laid foundation stone of Hongkong Seamen's Institute, 1909. Daring Piracy on the s.s, "Tai On” off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu; Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great laughter, 1901.

Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.