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THE CALENDAR FOR 1919

APRIL-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

...6h. 16m.

6h. 38m.

..6h. 03m.

6h. 43m.

Maximum

1917 .73.5 75.0

1918

MOON'S PHASES

Minimum

d. h.

m.

Mean

..66.4

.69.4 70.4

67.0

New Moon

1

5

5

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1918

First Quarter

7

8

39

P.M.

Mean

29.96

Full Moon

15

4

25

P.M.

Last Quarter 23

7 21

P.M.

1917

RAINFALL

1918

New Moon

30

1 20

P.M.

5.230 inches

4.440 inches

DAYS OF

DATS OF

WEER

Mostи

3&4 MOONS

CHROXOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Tues.

1

1

Wed.

M

Thurs.

Fri.

Satur.

Sun.

6

Mon.

7

Tues.

Wed.

1 burs.

10

10

Fri.

11

11

Satur.

12

12

Sun.

13

Mon.

14

Tues.

**

13

14

15

15

Wed.

16

16

Thurs.

17

17

Fri.

19

18

Satur.

19

Sun.

Mon.

21

Tues.

2 N

20

༤བས

10

20

21

22

Wed.

23

23

Thurs.

21

24

Fri.

Satur.

Sun. Mon.

25

* * NX

25

26

26

27

28

28

Tues.

29

20

Wed.

30

1

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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 liwang-chan-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory opened at Hong-

kong, 1900.

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 Shanghal, 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.

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

PALM SUNDAY. 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.

GOOD FRIDAY, Convention between 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, 1910,

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

Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891. EASTER DAY.

EASTER MONDAY. 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 daia wrecked near Foochow, 1911.

Cap-

Chinese Imperial Edict issued diaranking 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 ands 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 8,8, “Tai On” off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu; Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great slaughter, 1901-

Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.