HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING,
DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.
The only office in China Inving Europost taught workmen. Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN
A CHEE & CO., Established 1959,
Every Household Requisite. Depot for Esetnin'e Kodak Filme nd Accessories;
17a, Queen's Road Central.. CHEONG LEE & CO., Forniture Store. Established over 20 years. Importers and
Exporters, Teakwood Forniture, Blak wood, Jewellery, &o, highest grade, best and cheapest. E, Queen's Head
Central.
JEWELLERS
MAISON LEVY HERMANOS
Diamond Morchants and Watchmakers, 40 Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Álsa at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Toile
PHOTOGRAPHER
TO LET.
TO LEF.
NMAGAZINE GAT
2. "MAGDALEN TERRACE."
Apply to
SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong 1st, July, 1903,
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GODOWNS TO LET,
TRATA EAST. Spacious Two-storied and Single-storied Godowns. Suitable for Yarn or Coals.
Also Land for Coal storage.
Apply to-
CO., LD.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JULY 10tĦ. 1903
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. Hin reports that the process of C. Schlickeyson has been worked since 1959, having been put in AN USEFUL ATTARATUS--BUITILE GOLD operation in Bussia, Holland, Hungary, CASTOR OIL IN ANCIENT LUIFT—128151ANCE | Switzerland, and Germany, with constant ime ›TO TRACTION—A COLLECTION OF SLUGS-provement in detaile. The peat is ground, THE NEW EGYPTIAN FO98IL-PRAT COKE- | air-dried and kiln-dried, nutil the water is reduced to 15 to 18 per cent. Prysing into briquettes with boat gires increased value, and another improvemoul is the addition of bitumi- nous coul-dust, anthracite oulm or sawḍast fie grooms so that of Martin Zingler. This peat to the peat-pulp. A more modern and sciopti.
"THE FIRST SIGHT-SPEAKING CANDLES.
A recording thermometer described by an English physiciat consists essentially of a fint. toned brass tube boat into a nearly complete circle eight inches across, and filled with creo-
Bote, one end of the tubo being attached to a stand and the other to a lover moving a pen on
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-a recording drum. A change of a Fahrenholt
MENT & AGENCY
(1000 degrea deflects the pon about an inob, a Hongkong, 31st March, 1903.
continuous record of the changes being marked on the paper covering the revolving drum. The thermometer is converted into a regulator for
TO LET,
LATS MORETON TERRACE,
No. 2, RIPON TERRACE (in FLATS). GODOWNS at BowerNGTON (PBATA
EAST). HOUSES in LEIGHTON HILL KOAD. Apply to
CATEWAY BAY, Basing the Polo Ground
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 8th Jano, 1903,
TO LET.
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M. MUMEYA, JAPANCHE ARTIST,
Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colcaring Photos and relief Photos.
Viewe of Chains and Manila. Work AWO GODOWNS, Nos. 2 and 4,
done for Amateurs; He, 81, Queen'ATHESON STREET, WARchai.
Road Central.
No. 5, STEWART TERRACE, PEAU, Furnished, from 5th Jane to 31st August, 1908.
WESTBOURNE VILLA"
NORTH Boshan Boap.
"BISNEE VILLA," PORFULUM ROAD.
For torma and particulars, apply-to-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1903,
PRINTING
**DAILY PRESS" OFFICE
Proofs read by Englishmen.
STOREKEEPERS
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Navy Contractriz, Saiakers, Provisiou
and Coat Merchants Sok Aguats for Hartmann Hahtjen's Genuine Com.
position Red Hand Brand.
BISMARCK & CO.,
Navy Contrators, Ship Chandlers,
Provision and Coal Morchate, Buil. makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied to
Vessels in the Harbour
HONG BANG & CO.,
Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Provisioners,"
Coal Morchants, Hardware, Engineers
Tabla, Brase and Iron Merchants,
144, Des Vent Kont.
"MORE & SEIMUND,
25 and 95, Connaught Rud. Praya Contral. Shipchouders. Sailmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeopers; Solo Agents for Shipowners Composition ("Gray- hound Brand") and Blundel's
Spenco & Cola Composition WATCHNAKERS
DROZ & CO.,
14. Queen's Road Central. Repairs of Watchus and Clocks by competent
N°
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European experts at modernto rata
TO LET
TO LET.
13 ARBUTHNOT, ROAD. Roomed House,
Six.
Apply to-
E. A. DE CARVALHO, C. F. DE CARVALHO.
Hongkong. 3rd July, 1903,
TO BE LET FURNISHED.
TAN MOR" (Wost), PEAK ROAD.
pply to-
от
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MAJOR TUDOR, R.E..
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FIN-
ANCE COMPANY, LD. Hongkong. 18th June, 1907,
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ROM August 25th, COSMOPOLITAN
HOUSE
(Uafurnished), 13. Large Rooms, Kitekon, etc., etc.
Apply
giving uniform temperature for days and wooke by stituting an electric contact for the pen, the losing of the circuit being made
tura
on more current if the heating is by electricity or to regalato the gassupply if a store is uod, With such a regnlater the temperature of room containing a ruling engine was kept for Are days at 60 deg., with no greater deviation than a fifth of a degree..
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is converted into coko is closed ovens, the
and the preparatory drying, and the product waste gases furnishing beat for both the coking
is hard, black, smokeless fuel, selling in Germany at an equivalent of $10 to $13 po tos. It is a high-grade coal, especially prized for various metallurgical purposes. Peut-coke is now made at Renkino, Russia, and extensive
factories are to be established in Germany,
The sonation of sewing for the first time is dificult to imagine. A man of thirty, blind from birth, has boon successfully operated on in Glasgow, and on being told to look his gara directed him to the source of the sound, when his recollection of what he had felt upon lim- scifshowed him that he must be looking upon a month and a face-those of the surgeon. The first sight of yellow tande his fool very sick, but red gave him pleasure.
A curious failure of the gold need in British Coinage has boom brought to notice by Dr. J. K. Rose. This metal is an alloy of $1.6 per cent of gold and 8.3 per cent of copper, and it is
Electric ares buve been made by several physic male so brittle as to be unfit for use by the presonce of minato trees of such impuritionists to speak or act as telephone receivers. Two as tollurium, load, bismuthi, et, although Russians make an ordinary flame speak by considerably larger quantities of the Ama lending wires from the secondary of an induction elements, except bismuth, do not affect the epil to Bunsen burners, paraffin lamps or short ND FLOOR, No. 25, DES VŒUX BOAD ductility of fius gold. The effect of the eandles, s mierophone and battery being placed
CENTRAL.
Limpurities is counteracted by vilding copper in a shunt to the primary circuit of the coil.
On speaking to the mier phone, even from Apply to-
a hundred foot away, the flame repeated the sound.
TO LET
(1046
DANG CHEE, SON & CO.,
25, Des Voeur Road Central. Hongkong, 2nd July, 1904;
[1908
TO LET.
FERNSIDE," ROBINSON ROAD.
Apply→→→
E. M. HAZELAND.
35, Queen's Road Central Hongkong, 24th June, 1943.
TU LET.
.
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Bix-Boomed Bungalow in first-class TO. 1. CAMERON VILLAS (PEAK)
condition
Apply to-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS.
[1818 Hongkong, 24th June, 1903.
TO LET.
LAURNISHED HOUSE, 5, KNUTSFORD F TERRACE, LOT 1 of Three Months
orkle.
Seeds of the custor oil plant are surprisingly common in Egyptian foraba Irof. Larit, a recent French investigator, Rnds that some seals from Thebes must be at least 3,000, years old, and from an ancient papyrus concludes that the oil was wed for much the same purposes as now,
The Row Herbarius, begun fifty Foars ago, is estimated to comprise consilerably more than
2,600,00 specimens, attached to 1,300,000 sheute
In his importat experiments upon the resistance of road vehicles to traction, Prof. Hele-Shaw measures the palt upon a single wheel drawa behind a molar car. A castor frame six feet long is arranged for receiving any wheel to be tested, with weights for giving any desired load, and the pull a rented upon the wheel is transmitted by a system of levers, to
und Ricksta. Only household expenses required.pression of enclosed water innvex the pen of the
from about middle of July. Piano, Tebais Court
Apply-
A. A. W., 5, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, Hongkong: 30th June, 1003;
(177 TO LET.
TWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-No. 95
and 98, PRAYA KAST. Apply to
H. N. MODY,
Victoris Buillings. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1002.
TO LET.
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66 TAHTLEY” 'and WESTLEY,"
HUFFER RICHMOND ROAD,
"STONY BROOK," LOWER RICHMOND ROAD.
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LAU CHU PAK. Care of A. S. Watson & Co., Id. Hongkong, 2nd June, 1903.
150
TO LET.
TWO SPACIOUS NEW GODOWNS, 且 very suitable for Dry Goods.
Apply to
MANAGER,
Wm. Powell, Ld. | 1867
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Hongkong. 30th June, 1933.
TO LET WITH IMMEDIATE
POSSESSION.
(TWWO SUITES of ROOMS in the Ground
Tloor of the Hongkong Club Annex,
suitable for Offices.
Apply to the undersigned.
C. H. GRACE, Secretary.
Hongkong Club.
Hongkong, 18th June, 1903.
TO LET
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NTO. 3, DUDDELL STREET, ground floor. Suitable for Offices or Office and Godown.
Apply
SOUTH CHINA MORNING
POST." LD., Connaught Road Central. Hongkong, 27th Jane, 1803,
TO LET.
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FIRST FLOOR No. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL. Suitable for Ofice. Apply to--
IP LAN CHUEN,
Care of Mr. A. M. Essabhoy,
Nos. 7 and 9, Zetland Strost.
Hongkong, 11th June, 1903.
TO LET.
- p
f1480
TO. 17. SEYMOUR ROAD`or WOOD.
W. LYSAUGHT,
153, Wanchai Road. Hongkong, 15th April, 1908.
1153
TO LET UNFURNISHED
"YOOMBE," MAGAZINE GAP
Cilable from 1st April.
Apply--
Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 16th February, 1905.
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TO LET.
SPACIOUS ROOMS at No. 15, 2, BELILIOS TERRACE, with Bath room and Kitchen.
Rent very moderate, Immediate PeeHession,
8. T. J., Apply to
Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 6th July, 1903.
(1935
TO LET.
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A TRUE STORY.
England is a long way off and fifty-threo yours is rather for in the past; still thore are. Tow poople among us able to recall what the old enantry was like in 1850, the year of the incident to be reinted.
Though the cost of making finest toilet soaps
has nearly doubled, the retail price, ingredients, and superior quality of Vinolia Soap remain unchanged. For the complexion.
1347-2
STYLISH DRESSMAKING.
COSTUMES MADE UP IN ALL THE LATEST FASHIONJ OF PARIS,
LONDON, AND NEW YORK.
EXPERIENCED BUROPEAN CUTTING AND
GENERAL SUPERVISION,
EVERY KIND OF GARMENT MADE FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN.
W M.
POWELL,
HIGH CLASS DRAPERS,
LD.
34, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONC.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
THE MOST
PORTABL
GEL BIN LONG
At that time there lived in a detached cottage gear an English cathedral city a very eccentric FOLDING CANVAS CAMP BEDSTEADS bachelor. He had formerly been wealthy; but having dissipated the greater part of his fortune. he went to the other extreme, and not only became a teetotaler bat almost denied himself the necessaries of life. For yours he kept himself a prisoner. in his coltage, his only CAMP BED companions being two forocious bull dogs named, Bear and Whisky.
Two tramps, who choosed to hear that this STEAD EVER singular recluse was very well off, and that he was never without beer and whisky, resolved to
a bydraslic plunger, which through the com.rob hita. Accordingly they one night broke into the lonely man's cottage, and immedia oly discovered that the Beer and Whisky therein were of quite different brands that they had expected to find. One of the trampa, fleeing in mad terror from the dogs, full into a will atesam and was drownod. just managed to climb o tal fence, but foll
is companion, badly bitten. over it and fractured his skull, so that he died the next day.
recording apparates. This apparatas, carefully mounted to avoid vibration, includes a drum carrying a paper band 82 inches wide, with a pen wear one edge of the paper that registers the tructive effort in pounds and a pen upon the other half that rotorun the speed in miles through the revolutions" "öf-this, wheels of the car. The texts thus far have shown that the pull is fairly proportional to the lead, but with pheumatic wheels on a macedam rond the in- crease with velocity was light while it was rapid with iron-shod wheels running over paring stones..
Of the sings, or long breathing snails with too small or interual shells or none at all, about 1,90 species und 300 varieties have been
vibed. Most of there have been brought together by Walter E. Collinge, an English collector, who shows specimens ranging in size from that of a grain of wheat to a length uf 8. veral 'inchies, and in colouring from dall, repulsiva fjuts to the gorgeous hues of the butterfly. All slugs lay eggs, the numbers varying from ten to a hundred or more und the sizes from that of a pin-point to that of a sparrow's gg. A beautiful and very rare South African species is a veritable tiger among its kind, preying saragely on other slugs and on insects, and covered viher species are carnivorous and friends of gardeners.
The Arsinoitherium, the new fossil monster of Egypt. had a hond nearly a yard long, with a pair of small horns near the ryes and an enormous double bony horn on the basal regiun Prof. E. Bay Lankester, however, finds that it cifes from the rhinoceros and was probably descended frota the early ele phauits.
For the polyglot technical dictionary of Dr. H. Jansen one and a quarter million words bars been collected already, aid being given by Germans, French, English, and American 11719 stadents.
GODOWN at West Point. NE FIRST-CLASS SPACIOUS
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" GODOWN," Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 16th June, 1903.
TO LET.;
ROBINSON ROAD.
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AHMET RUMJAHN, 82. Queen's Road. Hongkong, 1st July, 193
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
NLANDS WEST to from M R 8.
JUNE.
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E. H
Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 16th May, 1903
TO LET.
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AROUND and 2ND FLOORS of No. 3,
T OLD BAILEY,
No. 10, SEYMOUR TERRACE. No. 13, MOSQUE JUNCTION.
No. 43, CAINE ROAD. Nine-Roomed Corner House, $160 exclusive of Taxes.
Nos.
1 and 3. CORONATION TERRACE. Six-Boood Corner Houses, $100 each including Taxes.
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE on Upper Lovels, fully. Furnished, for Sir Montbe.
And others to sait various requirements,
S. A. SETH.
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GILLANDERS,
GLENWOOD," 21. CAINE ROAD. Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.
TANG YUEN,”
BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT.
1915
SUMMER RATES. European Super- vizion. Excellent Cuisine and Accommodation,
Apply
MANAGELESS,
Macdonnell Road;
FAIRALL & CO., Queen's Road. f081
Hongkong, 2nd March, 1905.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
NOMFORTABLY FURNISHED
COOME, with Board.
Apply to Mre. MATHER, Land and Estate Broker.
[1896 | Hg) ong, Lat January, 1892
Hongkong, 6th July 1993,
2. Podder's HIL
Peat from the bog contains 85 per cent, of water with only 15 per cent. of combustible matter. To condense the material into as -efficient fuel has long taxed the ingenuity of inventors, and Cougni-General Mason of Ber.
Painkiller
(PERKY DAVIS”).
the seaman's friend, for cholera, cramps or chills. It acts like magic. Take no substitute.
The incident caused much excitement at the local shopkooper reported that the only answer time, and it had scarcely subsided what the he could obtain to his knocking was the growls of Beer and Whisky; whereupon the police broke into the cottage and discovered the old man--dead. The ingrest was remarkable for u dispute which it occasioned between two doctors, One maint ined that death was the result of fright at the recent attempted robbory; tho. other, that deceased died from chronic indigos. tien brought about by improper diet and want of exercise, he not having been cutside bis cot. tage for eighteen years The discussion was taken up by the giants of the medical profession. and ably debateil, the ennclusion reached being that indigestion is a disease arising from iufia italy numerous causes, and itself productive of
omplints bardly less mumans. not then known (as it has been now for thirty- fivo years) that indigestion has one sura cure, via Seigel's Syrup.
Bat it was
Mr. J. C. Backie, of Post Office (hambers, Auckland, NZ., has not kept within his house. for eighteen years. On the contrary, he is a traveller and knows the world well Writing ¡on 16th March, 1903, Mr. Blackin observes:
MADE.
GUARA
$10 each.
OVERHALFATON
THIN TROPICAL BLANKETS, $3.50 EACIL
CLOSED.
A NECESSITY AND A LUXURY FOR THE SUMMER.
NOBEL-GLASGOW
DYNAMITE,
GELATINE-DYNAMITE.
EXPLOSIVES.
BLASTING GELATINE AND GELIGNITE,
DETONATORS, SAFETY FUSE,
AND ALL BLASTING ACCESSORIES,
MAGAZINES AND DEPOTS AT
HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, WEIHAIWEI.
AGENTS-
325
JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.
FRONTIER MIXTURE.
A PIPE TOBACCO.
For years I was a martyr to indigestion and farulence. Wind used to press on the valve of may heart to suo an alarming degres that ou two occasions I fainted on the platform when LAMBERT & BUTLER'S
ablicly speaking. Dietary and medicinal treat- ment failed utterly until, on the weaommendation of a Professor at the Working Men's Colleg taking it regularly after each meal I very aun Malbourno, I tri 1 Mother Saigal's
Сугар. Ну found relief, and huve ever since been able to enjoy all foxls without inconvenience. My on a was effected about four years ago, whoa I had consumed from aix to right botiles; but ona bottle was sufficient to afford me rediet. I have never ceased to praise the virtues of Soig's Byrup in the Colonies I visit as A. GENTLEMAN'S SMOKE. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THIS BRAND comercial traveller, merely in gratitude for the great benefit derived from it for I have no business connection whatever with its pro- pristors, What I now any is quite unsolicited, Certainly there is no other such putent and as remedy for all forms of indigestion." Sach is the testimony of on intelligent and experienced
mud
Of indignation it may be sail, s was said of faur, sane inherit it. some achieve it, and sous have it thrust apon them (as in the case of persoas compelled to load a sedentary life); but all may eradicate it by following the example of Mr. Blackie.
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PURE FRESH WATER
THE HONGKONG STEAM WATEK
BOAT COLD, is prepared to kapely NY QUANTITY of PURE FRESA WATER to the Shipping, both for Dock and Boilers.
Call Flag W.
J. W. KEW, Manager.
1st Floor, 37, Canninght Road. Hongkong, 13th June, 1903.
F1703
CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS. SURVEYORS AND CONTRATORS. BEFAIES FROMPTLY ATTENDED TV.
TELEGRAMS: " CARMICHAEL," HONGKONG.
ABC Code, 4th Edition A 1 Code.
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Lieber's Standard Codo.
TELEPHONE, 232, Hongkong, 20th June, 1907.
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FRONTIER MIXTURE IS A COMBINATION OF THE CHOICEST
TOBACCO GROWN,
TO BE OBTAINED FROM-
MESSRS, KRUSE & CO.
JAPAN
MITSUI
IN 1-LB. AIR-TIGHT TINS.
COALS.
BUSSAN KAISHA (MITSUI & CO)
HEAD OFFICE:-1, SURUGA-CHO, TOKYO, LONDON BRANCH-34, I.IME STREET, E.C.
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