1917

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TJIE CALENDAll FOR 1917
OCTOBER-31 DAYS
Suxrise Sunset
1st 6h. 15m. 6h. 11m.
15th ..jBH. 20m. 5h. 59m.
Moon’s I’uases
cl. li. m.
Full Moon 1 4 31 a.m.
Last Quarter 8 6 14 a.m.
New Moon 16 10 41 a'.m.
First Quarter 23 lo 38 p.m.
Full Moon 30 2 19 p.m.
Hongkong Temperature
1915 1910
Maximum 82.7 80.2
Minimum 75.4 72.3
Mean 78.9 75.9
Barometer, 1916
Mean 30.01
1915 Rainfall 1916
11.710 inches 0.730 inches
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Chronology op Remarkable Events
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The “Hongkong Daily Press.” started, 1857. Inauguration of Hongkong College ot
Medicine, 1887? Hyogo declared an open port, 1892. Gold Standard adopted in Japan,.
1897. British Section, Canton-Kovvloon Railway opened, 1910.
Tamsui bombarded by French, 1884.
Serious riot at Hongkong, 1884. Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok,.
1893. Withdrawal of British steamers from West River, 1900. Chinese National
Assembly Inaugurated, 1910.
Attack on foreigners at Wenchow, 1884. Terrible fire at Amoy, 1902. Typhoon at
Hongkong, 1894. Canton-Kowloon Railway opened for through traffic, 1911.
French expedition left Chefoo for Corea, I860. Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir
William Des Voeux, 1887.
Hongkong Government agreed to lend the Viceroy of Wuchang £1,100,000 to repurchase-
from an American syndicate the Canton-Hankow railway concession, 3905. H.R.H.
Prince Alfred visited Peking, but not received by the Emperor, 1869. Great publie¬
meeting at Hongkong to consider increase of crime in Colony, 1878. Chinese Court
left Kaifengfu on its way to Peking, 1901. Hongkong Legislative Council passed
a Bill to prevent trading with the enemy, 1914.
Supplementary Treaty signed at The Hague, 1848. French landing party at Tamsut
repulsed, 1884. Battle of Shaho, Russo-Japanese War, commenced. Ended 25th in'
disastrous defeats of Russians ; casualties 45,s00 Russian ; 15,879 Japanese, 1904.
Shanghai captured, 1841. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection of Tientsin-Kaiping Rail¬
way, 1888. Shanghai-Woosung Railway placed under Chinese control, 1904.
Lord Napier died at Macao, 1«:14. Wreck off the Pescadores of the P & O. str. “ Bokhara,”
with loss of 125 lives, 1892. Yum Shih Kai inaugurated President of the Chinese-
Republic, 1913.
The tirst Chinese merchant str. (“Meifoo”) left Hongkong for London with passengers to-
establish a Chinese firm there, 1881. Outbreak of revolution in China at Wuchang, 1911.
Revolt in the Philippines, 1872. Eight Chinese baid s in Peking suspended payment, 1910..
Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. First railway in Japan officially opened by the-
Mikado, 1872. Allies capture Paotingfu, 1900.
Explosion on the Chinese trooper “ Kungpai,” loss of 500 lives, 1895.
Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1866. Train disa
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between Harbin and:
board the British str.-
St. John’s Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. Daring piracy
“ Greyhound,” 1885.
At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, a scheme
of reconstruction was approved, 1892.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1859. Great typhoon at Formosa, 1861. Jnpanese Government
welcomed American Battleship Fleet, 1908.
Terrific typhoon at Manila; enormous damage to property, 1882. The Shanghai and
Woosung railway closed by the Chinese Government, 1877.
H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Shanghai, 1869. Cosmopolifan Dock opened, 1875.,
58 piratical vessels destroyed by Captains Hay and Wilcox, H.M. ships “Columbine” and
“Fury,” 1849. Hongkong Legislative Council voted $11)0,009 to the Prince of Wales’
Na ional Relief Fund, 1911. Anns and ammunition consigned to India by Germans,
discovered at Shanghai, 1915.
King Chulalongkorn of Siam died, 1910.
Japanese cross the Yalu, 1894.
Treaty of Whampoa between France and China signed, 1844. Kahding recaptured by
the Allies, 1862.
Chin-lien cheng taken bv the Japanese, 1894.
Serious earthquake in Central Japan, 7,500 persons killed, 1891. Attempted insurrection'
at Canton, 1895. Prince Adalbert of Prussia visited Hongkong, 1904. Massacre of four
American Missionaries and a child at Lienchow, 1905, Prince Ito assassinated at Har¬
bin, 1909. Hon. Mr. W. D. Barnes, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, died suddenly
whilst playing polo, 1911. Bomb thrown in Canton, killed 57 people, 1914.
Note presented from the Powers to China advising the suspension of the monarchical.
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Portuguese frigate “D. Maria II.” blown up at Macao, 1850.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Feughuang taken by the Japanese, 1894. Chinese Govern¬
ment welcomed American B itthship Fleet at Amoy, 1908.
II- R- H. Prince Allred arrived at Hongkong, 1869. Talienwan occupied by the-
Japanese, 1894.