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THE CALENDAR FOR 1932
JANUARY-31 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE .
SUNRISE
1st 15th
7h. 03m.
SUNSET 5b. 50m.
J
1930 1931
7h. 06m
6h. 00m.
Mean Maximum
59.1
66.5
MOON'S PHases
d.
m.
Mean Minimum ...
50.9
57.2
...
Last Quarter ...
1
9
23 A.M.
Mean
...
54.6 61.4
New Moon
8
7
29 A.M.
First Quarter...
16
55.A.M.
-Full Moon
23
44 P.M.
...
Last Quarter
30
*32 P.M.
1930
2.275 inches
RAINFALL
1931
0.325 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
WEEK
MONTH
11 & 12 MOONS
Fri.
24
Satur.
25
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sen as Provisional President, 1912. Anti-foreign demon- strations at Hankow, 1927.
First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai conpleted, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted Appeal Court, Hongkong, 1913. Sino-French Treaty signed, Spain and Portugal renounce extraterritorality, 1929.
2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a
member of the Legislative Council, 1884.
Sun.
26
Mon.
27
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840.
refused to submit Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
Chinese Govt.
Tues.
Wed.
6
Thurs.
7
228
28
29
30
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1878. `All British leave Hankow, 1927. Forts at Chuenpi taken, 1841. Chinese Govt. Press Bureau initiated, 1914.
women and children leave Kiukiang, 1927.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice Hongkong, 1919. British women and children
leave Hankow, 1927.
British
Fri.
OD
1
Satur.
9
2
Sun.
10
Mon.
11
Tues.
12
Wed.
13
* O* ** & 2
20
21
22
British str. "Namchow" sunk off Cup Chi, near Swatow, 1892, French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. President Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, 1891. Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Trywhitt, D.8.B., C.-in-c., China Squadron, vice Admiral Sir E. A. Sinclair, K.C,B., M.V.O., arrived Hongkong, 1927. Attempt on life of Mikado of Japan, 1932.
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1860.
18T AFTER EPIPHANY. Peace treaty ratified with Germany, 1920.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened, 1891. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong appealed for endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909.
Mr.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, 1875. China's Parliament dissolved, 1914.
O'Malley, consellor of British Legation arrived in Hankow for conference with Eugene Chen, 1927.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to open up Canton, 1846. Strike of Seamen at Hongkong, which continued until March 5th and developed into a general sympathetic strike, 1922. Establishment of Chinese faculty at Hongkong University, 1927. Religious institutions at Foochow looted, missionaries left the City, 1927.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871. Volcanic eruptions and
tidal wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famiue in Northern Japan, 1914.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. "Yik Sing" lost
at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peiping, 1902. Five cruisers of Mediterranean Fleet ordered to China, 1927. Barricades erected across en- trances to foreign concessions, S'hai., 1927. Wreck of s.s. "Hsin Wah" near H'kong, 1929. 2nd after EPIPHANY. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peiping, destroyed, 1889. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
Collision near Woosung between P. & O. "Nepaul" and Chinese transport "Wannien. ching", 1887. H'kong geded to Gt. Britain, 1841. Celebration of H'kong's Jubilee, 1891. Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
Sir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911.
P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868. Sir H. May's resignation of the
Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
Great floods in Malaya, serious loss of life, crops and cattle, 1927.
SEPTUAGESIMA, Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peiping, 1601. Decree
announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
AUSTRALIA Day. Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao
burnt, 1835. Terrifio fire at Tokyo, 1881.
England, America, France and Japan agreed to jointly maintain a garrison of 4,000
men at Shanghai, 1927.** Pirating of the ss. "Seang Bee,” 1927.
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, the propagation of the Christian faith in China, 1733. Further outrages at Fonchow, 1927. 4 steel tanks, for water storage, cabled for to England on account of the drought, arrived in Hongkong, 1929.
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransoni money, 1846. British gunboat patrol
withdrawn from West River, 1908.
New Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, Hongkong, opened, 1929. Sir Cecil Clementi left
to take up governorship of Straits Settlements, 1930.
SEXAGESIMA. Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano erruption at
Taal, P.I., 1911.
Thurs.
14
7
Fri.
16
8
Satur.
16.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
21
22
Wed.
Thurs,
Fri.
15
Satur.
23
16
Sun,
24
17
Mon.
18
Tues.
26
19
27
28
100 2 2 2 ** 78 8
17
10
18
11
19
12
20
13
14
Satur.
Sun.
31
19 19 13
29
30
23
24
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