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THE CALENDAR FOR 1923

JUNE-30 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

SUNRISE

SUNSET

1st... 15th...

5h. 38m.

7h. 03m.

1921 1922

5h. 38m.

7h. Oem.

...

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum Minimum Mean

...85.2 86.5

..

...77.8

78.8

...

d. h. m.

...81.0 81.9

BAROMETER, 1922

Last Quarter

6

5

19

P.M.

Mean

...29.74

New Moon

14

8

42

P.M.

First Quarter

22

46

A.M.

1921

RAINFALL

1922

Full Moon

28

9

4

P.M.

14.740 inches

6.525 inches

DAYS OF DATS OF 4 & 5

WEEK MONTH MOONS

Fri.

17

Satur

Sun.

19

Mon.

20

Tues.

21

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CHRONOLOGY OF 1ɩEMARKABLE EVENTS

Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1878. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. 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. Nornian and Robinson murdered, 1900.

Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1863. Death of Sir Arthur

Kennedy, 1883. Keelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895.

Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1986. West River opened, 1997.

Departure of the first (. & O. steainer 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. 1. Lebandy pirated on West River, 1913, Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroy ed, and many lives lost,

1864. Dth of Yuen Shih-kai, 1916

Wed.

Thurs.

Fri.

R

Satur.

Sun.

10

26

བ མག ཤྲཱི

22

23

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

wrecked, 1:08. Tornado in Macao, 1913.

44

IF

24

Destruction of Mission premises at Wussieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891.

25

Mon.

11

Tues.

12

Well.

13

222

27

28

20

Thurs.

14

Fri.

15

N

Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & O. steamer “Aden" wrecked off

Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897

Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876. Admiral Seymour starts for Peking, 1900. Arrival in Hongong of H.R.1. Prince Charles, heir to the Roumanian Throne, 1920.

Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.

Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.

British steamer “Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser, 1875. Imperial Edict condemning attacks on foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, murdered in Peking, 1900.

"

Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu Russo-Japan War. Russians defe ted with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904. Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in an aeroplane on June 14th, 1919. Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,600 lives lost, 1806. British barque "Cæsar" and Danish schooner Carl" taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1866. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867. Russian squadron sark Japanese transport "Hitachi," badly injured "Sado," 1904. Hongkong Legislature passed Ordinances prohibiting circulation of foreign bank notes and foreign silver coins, 1914. Train from Canton to Hongkong “held up,” American missionary killed, 1916.

Woosung taken, 1842.

First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1800.

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.

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. Coronation of King George, V., 191, 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, 1884, Russian Baltic Fleet, after remaining six weeks in Tonkin waters, sailed from Kamranh Bay northward, 1905. Lord Robert Cecil announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decid-

ed to prohib t trading with the enemy in China, 1915

Satur.

Sun.

Mou.

Tues.

Wed.

Thurs.

21

Fri.

** * 22 EN

18

17

34

18

5

19

B

20

7

22

100

8

Satur.

23

23

10

Sun.

24

11

Mon.

25

12

Tues.

28

13

Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. Treaty of Nanking

exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. new wing of Berlin Foundling House laid by Lady May, 1914. Treaty between Eugland and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.

between France and China eigned at l'eking, 1887.

Foundation-stone of

Additional Convention

Wed-

11

Thurs,

28

15

Fri.

29

16

Satur.

30

17

Treaty between France and China signed, 1858. Confiscation of the str. “ Prince Albert

by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1866. 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, 1340. Opening of a section of the Shanghai and

Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891.

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