TO TE
TO LET:
TO, 12, CASTLE ROAD.
N°
Nos. 15, 17, 19 and 21, SEYMOUR ROAD. GODOWN, No. 33A, PRAYA EAST.
COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yusen Kaisha,
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Hongkong, 10th July, 1903,
TO LET.
TO LET.
TO LET.
RAWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-~Non D5
and 93, FRATA EAST Apply to
11980
66
A SUITE of FOUR ROOMS at No. 7. BARROW TERRACE, Kowloon. For particulare apply at the House.
A. MENZELL.
Hongkong, 14th July, 1903,
TO LET
H. N. MODY.
Victoris Buildings. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1902.
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TARTLEY" sud "WESTLEY." H
UPPER RICHMOND ROAD. "STONY BROOK," LOWER RICHMOND ROAD,
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Hongkong.
NE or TWO ROOMS at No. 12,
ARBUTHNOT ROAD
ONE
from Wyndham Street also).
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LAU CHU PAK, Care of A. 8. Watson & Co., L
2nd June, 1903.
850 TO LET.
TWO SPACIOUS NEW GODOWNS,
(entrance very suitable for Dry Goods.
W. LYSAUGHT,
153, Wauchai Road,
1159 Hongkong, 15th April, 1903.
Apply to-
Hongkong, 14th July, 1903.
C. M., Hongkong Hotel
(Secretary's Office!. [2010
TO LET.
66
ro. 3, DUDDELL STREET, grond floor, Suitable for Offices or-Offles and
Godown.
Apply
"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST," LD.. Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, 27th Jane, 1903,
TO LET.
TO LET UNFURNISHED. NOOMBE," MAGAZINE GAP.
vailable from let April. Apply
Daily Press Office.
1003. Hongkong, 16th February,
TO LET.
SPACIOUS ROOMS, at
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No. 15, (18402. BELILIOS TERRACE, with Bath room and Kitchen. Rent very moderate. Immediate Possession.
S. T. J., Apply to
Caro of Daily Press Office, Hongkong, 6th July, 1903.
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ND FLOOR, No. 35, QUEENS ROAD
CENTRAL; suitable for Office. Apply to
WING CHEONG, 35. Queen's Road Control. Hongkong, 10th July, 1903,
GODOWN TO LET.
TO LET.
(1981 GODOWN at West Point.
TO. 155, PRAYTA EAST. Spacious Two- storied Godown. Suitable for Yarn or
Coals
Apply Lo-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENI AGENCY CO, LD. Honghong, 11th July. 1903.
TO LET.
ROBINSON ROAD...
11988
AHMET RUMJAHN,
18,
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62, Queen's Road.
Hooghng, 1st July, 1963,
TO LET.
N°:
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(1896
NE FIRST-CLASS SPACIOUS
Apply to
"GODOWN," Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 18th June, 1903.
TO BE LET FURNISHED. [AN MOR" (West), PEAK ROAD, ·
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or
1719
MAJOR, TUDOR, R.E.,
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FIN-
ANCE COMPANY, LD.
(1902 Vongkong. 18th June, 1903.
TO LET.
TROM August 25th, COSMOPOLITAN
ALUnfurnished, 19
Large
2. "MAGDALEN TERRACE," Rooms, Kitokon, etc., eta, MAGAZINE Gar.
SPANISH PROCURATION. Ilongkong 1st, July, 1903.
TO BET.
MANAGER,
Wm. Powell, LA. 1867
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Hongkong, 30th June, 1903.
TO LET.
MORETON TERRACE,
LATEWAY BAY, Racing the Polo Ground.
No. 2, RIPON TERRAČE (in FLATS).
BOWLINGTON GODOWN at
(PRAYA
EAST), HOUSES in LEIGHTON HILL ROAD.
Apply to→
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 8th June, 1903,
T
TO LET.
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Two GODOWNS,. Nea. 2 and 4,
MATHESON STREET, Wanchai. No. 5, STEWART. TERRACE, PEAK, Furnished, from 5th Jane to 31st August, 1908. WESTBOURNE VILLA," NORTH
BUNHA ROAD.
"BISNEE VILLA" FORFULUM ROAD,
For terms and particulars, apply to--.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1903.
TO LET,
1016
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JULY 17cm 1907
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
one hand to the diseased eye while the othor hand holds ono electrode and the patient the
WHAT 18 IT!-THE NERNST VILAMENT other, and nothing is felt except a prickling in PROBLEM--HIGH XITE-FLYING-KNOWLEDGE | the hand grasping the electrode. The current FOR A COMING GENERATION—A STRANGE may be applied directly to the eye through a GLANS INDUSTRY-STAR TEMPERATURES Comprese tiod over the organ, if desired, the PEELING FURTHER ELECTRICITY For patient himself being able to regalate the INFLAMED EYES-METAL INFECTION—SUN- strength of current, HPOT INFLUENCE.
Unsccountable deterioration and changes are A curious phenomenon, supposed to be due to loading Germano metallurgista ton belief in the some new force, is perplexing Herr Gruha, a theory of disease and infection in metals, German physicist. When a non-magnetic rod Investigating the injury to copper from ovor is saeperded by a thin thread in a glass jar heating, Prof. Heyo baa concluded that tha and shielded from luminous and heat-rays, the metal is poisoned with copper protoxide, which thread has no twisting tension, but the rod produces sickness and structural weakening. takes a cortain position, and when the thread is When steel is poisoned by hydrogen, it is sickoned and mands as brittle na waon rained its twisted it follows only part way, stopping por haps at 60 degrees if the turn is 90 degrees and tempering. Prof. Bredig has found a tin pest lu a roof at Rottenburg, and has shown that at 120 degreas if the twist in continued to |180 degrees. The direction and intensity of when the white powder of the disintegrating the forea seam to have a daily period, or tomatal was placed on sound tin the latter became be subject to irregular perturbations. This infected and itself soun crambled. "directive force," as the discoverer calls it, affeste different substances unequally, and on a body heavier at one end it nots like wind on a weather-vane.
The Bliament of the Nerast lamp is composed of a mixture-of metallic oxides, which might to expected to become quickly reduced in strang heat, yet the passage of vory high continuous ourronts for hundreds of hours seems to cause no deterioration. An investigation by Dr. E. Bose explains numerous peculiarities of these filaments. He finds that the metal in rodavod at the cathode Lut is constantly being oxidised at the anode, the process being aided by the surrounding air, and in a vacuum the filament soon becomes metal and the light is ex- tinguished.
stations.
The monsoon, so important in India, is to be observed by kitas and kite-balloons from spacial The first of these stations will be at Simla in the Himalayas, 7.000 foot above sea-level.
Arsenic in appreciable amount has been found by Gabriel Bertrand in all parts of the hun's egg. This confirms the new belief that arsenic exists in all living cells and probably serves a special function.
It is only in tropical stations, according to Charles Nordmisun, that any effot of the sun- spot period upos zeau annual temperaturo call bo detected. From the records of twelvo auch stations it appears that the annual temperature varies with the sun-spots, and that the coldest. years ara those of maximum sun-spots.
Vinolia Soap acts on the skin like a little ray of sunshine, w.bile many soaps cause blemishes, face-spots, and mucous patches.
1847-3
STYLISH DRESSMAKING.
COSTUMES MADE UP IN ALL THE LATEST FASHIONS OF PARIS,
LONDON, AND NEW YORK.
The new Swedish process of "Buddeizing" EXPÉRIENCED as a means of sterilising milk is stated to depend upon the discovery that the ouzymes of the milk, at temperatures of 48 deg. to 35 deg. C., havo the power of decomposing hydrogen dioxide into water and oxygen, when the latter destroys all gertas,
INSURANCES
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO. OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL
"НЕ
Undersigned, having been appointe AGENTS for the sbore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Carrect Rates.
REJTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong. 21st April, 1897 GENERAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
M
EUROPEAN CUTTING AND
GENERAL SUPERVISION.
EVERY KIND OF GARMENT MADE FOR LADIE 3 AND CHILDREN.
WM. POWELL,
HIGH CLASS DRAPERS,
LD.
34, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG.
NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES.
DYNAMITE, 113
and
OF DRESDEN,
Accounts of the sprouting of seeds after Undersigned, having been appointad having been buried many years or even
T
AGENTS for the above Company, are centuries are usually open to doubt, hat Dr. prepared to ACCEPT FORSIGN Beal has shown by reliu-te tests that 12 out of 21 CHINESE RISKS.
HOTZ, S'JACOB & CO. species had the power of germinating after
Hongkong, 1st September, 1902. [2327 twenty years. To settle the interesting ques- tion of extreme vitality is the purpose of the NORTHERN ASSURANOS OJ. experiments begun by the U. S. Department of
OND FLOOR, No. 25. DES VŒUX ROAD | Agriculture, Seeds of 109 species, including
CENTRAL. Apply to
DANG CHEE, SON & CO.,
25, Des Voeur Read Central Hongkong, 2nd July, 1901.
11908 TO LET.
ESTABLISHED 1833.
THE Undersigned Agents of above Company paid to ask, Piret us Foriqu and Chinese BISKS ageist FIRE at Gurrait
TURNER & CO. Hongkong, 14th January, 193. THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA. INCORPORATED 1851.
common garden and field plants, na well on many grasses and weeds, have been carefully placed in dry clay soil in pots, and buried, complote sets being covered to a depth of 6 to į listes 8 inches, 2-ts to 20 inches, and 12 sets to 31 fest. A sut from each depth is to be tested at A ROAD
N_OFFICE at No. 2, CONNAUGHT the end of one two, three, live, seven, ten fifteen and twenty years, and from the two do per lots Apply
at the end of twenty-five. thirty, ferty and fifty
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LD.
[2031 Hongkong, 15th July, 1993.
TO LET
TWO Minatos from Clock Tower. ALAT (TWO ROOMS and BATHROOM)
Apply-
C..
Cure of Duity Press Office.
[2038 Hongkong, 16th July, 1903.
TO LET UNFURNISHED,
NE ROOM with Bathroom, Sorvanta TO. 17, SEYMOUR ROAD or WOOD-arters, ote, Bailable for a bachelor, in NLANDS WEST to Rent from 15TH Robinson Bond level. Also OFFICE opposite JUNE.
City Hall. Apply to
K. H.. Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong. 16th May, 1903.
TO LET.
1148
AIRST FLOOR No. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD
FIRST Nuitable for Offee.
Apply to→
IP LAN CHUEN,
Care of Mr. A. H. Essabbey,
Nos. 7 and 9, Zotland Street. [1699
Hosphons, 11th Jure, 1913.
TO LET WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
WO SUITES of ROOMS in the Gronad TWO
Floor of the Hongkong Clab Annex, suitable for Offices,
Apply to the undersigned,
0. H. GRACE. Secretary,
Hongkong Clob
Hongkong, 18th June, 1903.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
(1757
MRS GILL ANDERS
GLENWOOD,"
21. CAINE RUA D. Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.
"TANG YUEN."
BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT.
Apply
C. H.. Care of Daily Press Office, Hongkong, 15th July, 1903.
[2025
·TO LET.
years.
The tools used by natires of North-west Australia in making spear-beads from glass bave been interesting British anthropologists. These tools include a pivo of the log-bone of u skeep and a water worn pabble of natural shape, the pebble being used for the first rough chipping of the glass and the bone for the fluisling. Mach skill seems to be acquired in the use of these crade appliances, the products being very creditable.
Some years ago Weir worked out a rule for calenting the absoluto temperature of a heated body from the wave length of its most energetic radiations. From this role, which gives very probable results, the sun's tempera- then is found to range from 4,850 deg. to 5,450 dog. F.; that of firias, from 5,700 deg. to 6.460 ROUND and ES FLOORS of No. 3. deg.; Vega, 5,700 Jeg, to 6,400 dog.; Areturns.
OLD BAILEY.
No. 10, SEYMOUR TERRACE. No. 1, MOSQUE JUNCTION,
No. 4, CAINE ROAD. Nine-Roomed Corner House, $160 exclusivo of Taxes.
No. 3, CORONATION TERRACE. Bix. Romued Corner House, $100 a month including Тожен.
HOUSE. FOUR-ROOMED
on Upper Levels, fully Furnished, for Six Months,
And others to suit varions requirements.
S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker. 1996 Hongkong, 16th July 1908.
condition.
TO LET.
CAMERON VILLAS (PHAK).
NA six-Roomed Bungalow in first-class
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS.
[1818 Hongkong, 24th, June, 1908. THIGH-CLASS 1915 CAKES, decorated Plain Christmas Cakes... German Sand Cokes.... Assorted Pastry Cakes
SUMMER RATES. European Scper. vision. Excellent Cuisinenud Accommodation,
MANAGEEESS, Apply
Macdonnell Road;
Ox
FAIRALL & CO. Queen's Road. [681 Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903.
M. MATTHAEY.
PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Entrance by Zetlaud Street), Opposite Messre. Kelly & Walsh, Booksellers.
Heugkong, 13th July, 1903.
(1987
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
OMFORTABLY FURNISHED
ROOMS, with Board.
Apply to Mrs. MATHER,
2, Pedder Hill. Hugkong, Lst January, 189:
Scoteb Bans
Fresden Stollen
Mince Pies..
CHRISTMAS
Chicken and Ham Ples
Chicken and Ham Patties Game Pies
2,450 deg, to 2,700 deg.; Aldebarau, 2,550 dog. to 2,350 deg-; nad the electric light, 8,15) dag. to 3,500 deg. White and blue stars aro mach hotter than red and yellow.
Cash Security
...£625,719 Total Losses Paid. ...£8,789,240
(24.
HE Undersigned having been appointer
AGENTS for the above Company, prepared to ACCEPT RISKS agant FIRÍ
at Current Ratos.
11410
WM, MEYERINK & CO. Hongkong, 18th May, 1908. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE GOMPANY.
AGENTS for the above Company, are HE Cadesigned, having been appointer repared to ACCEPT PISKS against "FIRE at Current Rates.
HOTZ JACOB & CO, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900
UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710. The Undersigned having been spor AUENTS for the shore Company, are pre pared to. ACCEPT RISKS against FILE at Current Rains.
SIEMSSEN & LO..
Agents,
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Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.
TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 31er Drosmner, 1902, £18,378,771.
Recent work with reflecting telescopes in- dicates that in a good atmosphers the photo- graphs taken by the projected eight-foot re- flector of the Lick Observatory should show us L. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000,0 BOSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0 an universs 300 times as great as that revealed
PAID-UP CAPITAL...
687,500 by our best refractors. That is, suck an instru- ment should detect stara mereu times as far away as any that have been yat observed.
0
0
(1
II. FIRE FUNDS......... .......2867,215 11 10
The Undersigned, having been appointe AGENTS for the above Company, are pre
Current Rates.
GELATINE-DYNAMITE.
BLASTING GELATINE AND GELIGNITE,
DETONATORS, SAFETY FUSE,
AND ALL BLASTING ACCESSORIES,
MAGAZINES AND DEPOTS AT
HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, WEIHAIWEL.
AGENTS--
345
JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.
JAPAN
COALS.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
(MITSUI & COJ
HEAD OFFICE:-1, SURUGA-UNO, TOKYO, LONDON BRANCH:-34, fame Sreet, E.C.'
HONGKONG BRANCH PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, Ice House STREET
OTHER BRANCHES
New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shangval Chofos, Tientsin, Newchwang, Part Arthur, Secal, Chemulyo, Yakohama, Yɔkojaks Nagoya Osaka, Kobe, Kure, Shimorosaki, Moji, Wakamatan Karatsu, 1.agasaki Kuchinoti, Sazebo, Maidenen Miike, Hakolate, Taipeh, &c.
Tolegraphic Address: "MITSUT" (A.B.C. and A. 1 Codes, CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japano Navy and Arsenala and the Stale Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail en Freight Stramors. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miko, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines: and SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hordo, Kasında, Fujinotans, Mameda, Mannoura, Onoua Otaj
Sasahara Tabakuro, Yoshindani, Yezhio, Yunokibars, and other Ceals.
N. INUZUKA, Manager. Hongkong.
LAMBERT & BUTLER'S
FRONTIER MIXTURE.
A PIPE TOBACCO.
FRONTIER MIXTURE IS A COMBINATION OF THE CHOICEST TOBACCO GROWN.
pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE A GENTLEMAN'S SMOKE. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THIS BRAND,
-SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong. 19th June. 1903.
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The effects of lestrinity la eye-disease appear ta bo littlo understoost. After prolonged ex- periments, partly successful, Dr. Yox Ross has found the treatment to bave great advantages in cases of ipfammation, and ho recommends its uso first of allia iritis, carneitis and okloroiditis. PEONIX FIRE OFFICE
The Undersigned are ...from $1.00 Pain usually disappears almost instantly. To
Low prepared to of INSURANCE ...from $1 to $5.0 avoid alarming the patient, the physicien touch GRANT FOLICIES
against FIRE at Carront. Rates. par dezan 0.00
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & C0. frem 1.50
Agonts for the Phonix Fire Of
128 Hongkong. 17th August, 188",
0.80
71
2,00
per dosen 2.40
Chris mas Puddings. &c., to Order.
from 3,00 2.40
from 5.00
Please apply to WEISMAN & CO., 142, Prays East; ANGLO AMERICAN STORES, 64. Elgin Road: or ROYAL ELATED WATER DEPOT, I Honse Street.
Hoogkong, 19th December, 3909
VIEWS OF HONGKONG ON
0117-1
ILLUSTRATED POST CARDS Coloured, Write-Away Cards, &a.. For Sale ut GRACA & CO.'s Stall at
HONGKONG HOTEL CORRIDOR.
Used and Unused Foreign and Colonial
PORTAGE STAMPS
in Sets, Peckots or Single. King Edward VII Albums. Catalogues. Hinges, &c., &c., &c.
Inspection invited. Hongkong, 12th June, 1903.
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HEADS
BACK
LEOS
ACHE
Ache all over. Throat sore, Eyes and Nose running, slight cough with chills; this is La Grippe.
Painkiller
taken in hot water, sweetened, before going to bed, will break it up if taken in time.
There is only one Painkiller, "PERRY DAVIS”,”.
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ORTH GERMAN FIRE INSU ANCE COMPANY OF HAN BUR
The Undersigned AGENTS of the above. Company aro PREPJUED TO ACCEPT First- Class Foreign an) Chinese Risks at Current
STEMASEN & CO. Hongkong, P. May 1895
Rates.
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CHEONG SHING,
GENERAL EXPORTERS.
DEALERS IN JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS. PEARLS PRECIOUS STONES, SILKS, IVORY WARES, EMBROIDERIES AND CHINESE CURIOS.
Wholesale and Retail Prines very moderate. No. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite Messrs. €. J. GAUPP & Co.). ' Hongkong, 16th May, 1903,
TO BE OBTAINED FROM-
MESSRS. KRUSE & CO.
IN -LD AIR-TIGHT TINS..
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UNTOUCHED BY HAND.
MELLIN'S
FOOD
For INFANTS and INVALIDS.
MELLIN'S FOOD free from Stareh When prepared is similar to Breast Milk. MELLIN'S FOOD WORKS, FECHRAM, LONDON, ENGLAND.
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