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THE CALENDAR FOR 1918

APRIL-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

..6h. 16m.

6h. 38m.

15th

...6h. 04m.

6h. 43m.

Maximum

1916 1917 .75.3 73.5

Minimum

..67.1

66.4

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

.70.6 69.4.

d. h.

m.

Last Quarter

4

9

BAROMETER, 1917

33

P.M.

New Moon

Mean

29.89

11

0

34

P.M.

First Quarter

18

0

P.M.

1916

RAINFALL

1917

Full Moon

26

4

5

P.M.

4.295 inches

5.230 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF 2&3

WEEK

MONTH

- Mon.

1

Tues.

2

Wed.

3

Thurs.

4

Fri.

Satur.

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

9

Wed,

10

Thurs.

11

Fri.

12

12

Satur.

13

Sun.

14

Mon.

15

Tues.

16

· Wed.

17

Thurs.

18

MOONS

20

20

21

22

23

24

25

7 2 2 * * * * * 2

26

27

23

29

1

6

00

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

The port of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876. The ports of Pakhoi, Wenchow, 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, 1960.

Tai On pirated between Hongkong and Kongmoon, 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. 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.

Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886. Chinese Parliament inaugurated 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 by a mine off Port Arthur, nearly every man drowned, including Admiral 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. Riuts 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 hetween China and Japan settling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885. The O. & O. steamer “San Pablo" wrecked near Turnabout, 1888. One-fourth of the opium divans at Shanghai closed, 1908. Town of Wagima, Japan, destroyed by fire, 10.

The "Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamier 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.

Cap.

Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 1908.

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.

A crowded public meeting in Hongkong den a ds exclusion of Germans from the Colony

after the War, 1917.

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 slaughter, 1904

Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.

Fri.

Satur.

20

Sun.

21

Mon.

227 2

19

9

10

11

22

12

Tues.

23

13

Wed.

21

14

Thurs.

25

15

Fr

20

16

Satur.

27

17

Sun.

28

18

Mon.

29

19

Tues

30

20