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MANAGER:
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* MINE EXPLOSIONS........
Revenge of the Tross.
how the wave front of the explosion, * white sheet of fire cat more forward slowly or quickly. In the ron of the battleship it asaven quickly, and pushes ita ball-ton or so of metallic shell a few miles-ten or twaive, not a hundred-and, bas finished. In the dry mine the Same wave moves slowly, Irresistibly. Thousands of tons of earth crumble up before it, and men do not count.",
These things seldom occurred in damp mines, yet for yours there was no doubt that gas bad not very much to do with it. The Davy lamp did not prevent explo ions. Possibly, it may have done something. Hundreds of miners may have been saved; but explosions did not stop...
FIERY COAL BUAT.
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Poultry.
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The forests of andierit times which have rested millions of years, and gradually turned into coal, take their revengehen they are disturbed, states the Evening Standard. The revenge is so terrible that even millionaire have never tried to spend their money in fighting it. Liberties have been built, as we know. Technicst in- stitations have been endowed, bat we never get any nearer the great conquest of Nature, which enables a miner to go down into his coal-pit, with the perfect certainty that there will be no explosion, and that he will come back just as if he had gone to a factory of some other kind. His risk is
There came an explosion near Ginagow always great. He takes it very quietly, many years age in the four mill that and probably never thinks of the risks he changed all the old opinions. Four is a Chicken-Kat Chai rune. It is bis ordinary day's work, and, substance that burns easily, but it was not so far as he is concerned, there is no more known before then tlist folfe, finely dis Capons, Large, Small,
like dest; persed
through the air, could
wer. this Ducas-Ap... gunpower. ...FI. 45,000,000 (£3,750,000), to be said about it He riske explosions
burn in a flash liks may transfer at their option balances of FAID UT
without even thinking about them.
rest object son was seen, expert turned Doves, Pan Kau $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND CAPITAL RAKSTI
...F1. 7,194,817,-(£393,693).:
towards When Sir Humphry Davy invented his their attention
coal dust It Egga Hoo-Kai Tan SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on
FUND
HRAD OFFICE—ANSTERDAM. lamy to save the miners he had only one found to be a very unfiery subalance. Tv FEXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT, per
ides, and a vory definite one. He thought grind up Welsh authenice, very rely, to Fowlx, Casten-Rai
it into the air and to try to HEAD AGENCY-BATAVIA.
to light it in auperi- BRANCHES-Singapore, Penang, indeed, he knew that when the gas, fire a lont endeavour. Even the simple Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya, damp, was mixed with air a light would ment of blowing & little anthracite owder
oter Geese,Ngor Djember, Charbon, Tegel, Pecalong,cause it to explode. Moreover he knew through a piece of tubing--a pes-shooter Tjiltap, Bandoeng,"
8 Padang, Medan,
that a thin sheath of copper gauze will do into a gas flame only tends to put esse, Wild Shai-Shang-bo
the RA Tebing
out. Blowing finely ground rusin (Deli, Palembang, Rota Tingg Radja, (Achon), Macassar, Bandjarmasin, ping round and covering in his lamp-dame through the gas flame has a very differ Mask Deer, Wong Keng Bare, Shanghai, Tu Chai Correspondents at Bombay, Colombo, would prevent the mixture of air and gas ent effect.
It seems strane to
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the old THE YOKOHAMA SPECIF Madras, Fondicherry, Calcutta, Bangkok, from catching fire. Henco came the Day dried-up resins of the tree that grew Partridge, Che Kibo
Saigon, Haiphong Hanoi may Yoko Melbourat
years ago found their way into Thawat-Shan Kai lamp. The tidy fame used by the miner
millions of hama, Robo
Sydney, New
was kept coal by the sheath of copper the mines and cause explosions. Yet it is York, San Francisco, &c., &a.
LONDON BANKERS-The Union of webbing. The miner wis protected, and so. During the first few days when the trigona, Canton-Pak Kup
Boibo-Hot How Pak Exhibition, tre London and Smithe Bank, Limited:⠀⠀⠀ explosions were supposed to be things of Science Department of the Coronation was being put together these The Bank buys and sells and receives for the past. The reasoning of the whole
of coal tiny collection Bills of change, issue letters of credit on its Branches and corespunting a perfect Coal or any other sections ofarious kinks --Um-Chun ants in the East, on the Continent in Great carboniferous deposit always gives off some sections so thin that they appeared like Rice Birds-Wa Fa Chuar
Snipe,-Sa-Choy must have bee
from the trunke Britain, America, and Australia, and trans kind of gas or oil, In Ponuylvania it has semi-transparent leaves. Many of
in ing busines of every description broken up into oil, so no one tries to get at grandfather of the pitie furkeys, Cook-Phor Kai Kung
Elen carl; the oil bubbles up too freely. The that lind Hired and died in ages long before same thing happens in Baku, on the shores the chalk site of England were either lad INTEREST ALLOY ED:
As he shook his down or por particles fall out, fine
Amid Ducka,S'bai,-Sha of the Carpian Sea. Here some of the cu of a min
Even when
Lesl,-Bui Ap Chai, wells caught fire thousands of years ago,
doubt these minute grains of matter, stored up so long Wild DucksC ago in the cells of the ginut carboniferous, foresta, have been the cause of many an explosion.
For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
N. J. STABB,
ChiefTM Manager.
1517
Hongkong, January 24, 1911.
BANK LTD.
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AUTHORISED CAPITAL... Tex 48,000,000.00 50,000,000.00 17, 150,000.00 RESERVE FUND
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Interest allowed on Current Accounts, Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on application.
TAKEO TAKAMICHI,
Manager Jonizatny, September 28, 191†,
KING ERNATIONAL DANKI
INTERPORATION.
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AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA
DAY MIN25.
But in England the dead forests that make the mines are so old that very little of either gas or oil is to be found in them,
THE OHARTERED BANK OF INDIA- Gasey, mines, are the exception, and aron in the drest there is very little, chance of any gas explosion..
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