THE
ROBINSON PIANO
COMPANY, LIMITED
NOTE.
ENTIRELY
NEW STOCK
TO ARRIVE THIS MONTH. SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY
CHOSEN,
INSURANCES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29г¤ 2908
SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
THE Undersigned, having bean appointe AGENTS for the above Compang, ar propared to ACCEPT FISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
** HOTZ #JACOB & CO. Hoogk ng, 2nd April, 1:00 HENIX FILE
PI
The Undersigned are now prepared t GRANT POLICIES of INSURANC) against FIRE at Current Rates.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & 00.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
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BE Undersigned, having been appointed T AGENTS for the above Company, arr DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES, prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
MR.
GREAT
BY OUR
ROBINSON
NOW IN EUROPE.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
THE MOON'S SECRETS~~~ AWGXENT QUAL-MINING
-A SNOW WORK-POWER FOR FUTURE
dust and soot indicating a total fall of 24 pounds per 100 square feet.
In the new fire alarm system of Émilo Querini,
WM. POWELL,
LD.,
of Brussels, automatic signals are sent to the GENERAL DRAPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND
THE THE SPONGE-FISKERS' VOE-THUNDER_ engine-house by wireless telegraphy. The rise
STORMS AND THE MOON-A WIRELESS VIRE ALARM-HOW DREAMB ARE SHAPED-DECAY OF WOODS-OCEAN SURVEYS,
12 Improvements in toloscopes and in photo OFFIC.raphy have been bringing the moon nearer to us each year, until now it is regarded with much the same interest on the ocean depths. W. de Fourille, points out that the existence of the cities imagined by Solrotter lus been already Agents for the Phonix Fire Oles disproved, and we seem now on the verge of Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.
acquiring a start in lugar natural history. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- BURANCE CO.
At any rate, clinnges luva boon noted in the tint of certain regions that suggest the develop- mont and disappearance of some kind of vegeta tion. Kepler suggested that all water on the moon must take the form of ice during the long night of 354 hours, and it is now argued that the air itself-próbably not more than a sixth as dense as that of the cartli- may be couverted into snow by the intouse sold. This idea is confirmed by indientiena of an atmosphere in places that have been lighted by the sun long enough to change the solid air into the gaseons stata. A quaffed or solid atmosphere"{could not be easily detenteil at our distance, as its average depth would be only 6 or 7 foot, the 0oarth's atmosphere being sufficient to give liquid ocean of only about 35 feet in depth.
at Current Rates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO..
Agonte.
i13 Hongkong, 21st April, 1897 TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY, TOTAL FUNDS AT 81st December, 1902, £16,378,771.
· REDUCTIONS 1. AUTHORISED CAPITAL. £3,000,000
IN OUR PRESENT STOCK OF PIANOS AND MUSICAL GOODS.
`A QUANTITY OF OLD MUSIC STILL
LEFT, BEING SOLD YERY
CHEAP.
CALL IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE. ALL ENQUIRIES WILL BE MOST COURTEOUSLY AND PROMPTLY
ANSWERED.
THE APOLLO.
PLANO-PLAYER
RECITALS" "DAILY""""
PRICE FROM $450 UP.
PATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO.
Adelina Patti (Baronass Coderstrom) has giveu another great testimonial to the Apollo Piano player. She was so delighted with the ment that was purchased by her hust year that this second Testimonial is even stronger then the first ign that she gave,
Mme. Patti suya that "the Apollo nover has given her the lightest trouble and that the aw onert grand is owe of the mast wonderful and perfect piano-players that she has over soon."
Hongkong, 3rd September, 1987
EXCURSION TO MACAO.
GRAND PROCESSION.
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THE Well-ku wn & Commodious Steamship
TU
**WING CHAI"
will make a Special Excuusion Trip to Macao, UNDAY, the trn OCTOBER, 1003, leaving her anal What at the Western and of Wing Lak Mt 1890 A. and return- ing from Mucao 17.M. the same evening.
Meal Refreshes say in altained on board.
Tickets et
... $5. Extra for uk Cabin ... Tickets for Sale on board and available at
MING ON & CO., 2nd Flour, 16, Victoria Street, Hongkong, 95th September, 1983.
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CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS. SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS. REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO,
TELEGRAMS," CARMICHAEL," HONGKONG,
A B C Code, 4th Edition
A 1 Codo,
Lieber's Standard Codo,
TELEPHONE, ER. Hong knug. th June, 1903.
MUSIC.
117
APID Tution given on the BANJO, L MANDOLIN,"SPANISH GUITAR, VIOLIN, &c. Teams ramicgirata.
L. A. DE GRAČA, 58, Peel Street, or Caro of Daily Prera{Olion.
Hongkong, 11th August, 1983.
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SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 PAID-UP CAPITAL........*" 687,500 0 II. FILE FONDS... 2,867,815 14 19 The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
Agouts, Hongkong, 19th June, 1983.
[1888 TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG The Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are PREPATED TO ACCEPT First Clare Foreign and Chinese Risks at Carreol
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, May 1895-
Rates,
of the mercury in a thermometer acts upon a relay, and sets in motion a wheel, which makes and breaks the electric circuit by a sorios of contacts. A eories of impulses is thus sont through an induction coil and the usual trans- mitting apparatus. The receiver at the central station, or engine-house, includes air and earth conductors, cohéror, battery and Morse instru
out. The same receiver can serve a number. transmittors in different places, and, as the contacts on the wheel can be varied, the ozast tocation of the fire can be indicated,
of
A relation between the character of dreams
and the intensity of sloop has been shown by the experiments of N. Vasobide. In profound sleep the dreams refer to latent recollections of long-past events and matters seemingly having uo connection with the present; but the dream of light slumber are inspired by recent accur rences and excitemente, and are sometimes
GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS,
28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD.
LADIES' AND
DEPARTMENTS,
CHILDREN'S
OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE (FinsT FLOOR UPSTAIKO),
GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT,
48, QUEEN'S ROAD (Orrosite HONGKONG HOTEL),
WM. POWELL. LD.
connected with what is transpiring around the TURKISH
sleeper.
In a recent test of the durability of woods stakes two feet long and an incă and a half square wore driven into the ground nearly their entire length. At the end of five years, oak, elin, ush, fie and soft mahogany were cutirely Coal-werkings around Cheadle, in North decayed Larch and hard pino waro decayed Staffordshire, have been tracd back
on the outside, celar of Lebanon and hard far as the reign of Richard III. The early mahogany were in fairly good condition, but mining is explained by tooal geological condiVirginia cedar was as coaud and perfect sa ati Lions, as the coal-seare--instead of heing hid-first. den ander drift as in other parts of Englund- were brought to notice through dark streaks A late discovery is turned up by the plongb.
IN
Last year olevan British vessels, carrying 78 officers and 751 men, were employed in chart- an ok level that must have bag driven at besting the ocean's bed. An area of 12,661 miles
years ago for draining a coat-tract.
A cold-loving earthworm--Meluncurbytraens [72olifugas-has been brought to notice by Rus THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM-sell and Filippi. It lives on Mt. St. Elias,
PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA. INCORPORATED 1851.
Cush Security Total Lowes Paid
£625,719 £6,709,240
Undersigned having been appointed ANTS for the above Company, are prepared to EPT RISKS against FIRE st Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO. Hongkong, 13th May 19) THE BOMBAY FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE undersigned, having bon appointed I AGENTS for the abera Company, are prepared to accept RISKS at Current Rates.
HOTZ, JACOB & CO.
12160 Hongkong, 30th July, 1903. THE STATE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LIVERPOOL.
HIS Uidersigned AGENTS of the above THE
Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bates
W. G. HUMPHREYS & CO.
12185 Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903, NORTHERN ASSURANCE CJ.
FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1836.
THE Undorsigand are proparis to nocept First Class Foreign and his BISKS against FIRE as Current Rates.
Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR. ANCE. Prospectuses on application,
TURNER & CO.
Agents Hongkong, #3rd September, 1903. [2.73 QUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710.
The Undorsigod having been appoimen AGENTS for the ahore Componý, are pro pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO..
Agonis.
[ 28 Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.
PURE FRESH WATER
HONGKONG STEAM WATER
THE LIM IS primared to supply ANY QUANTITY of PURE FRESA WATER to the Shipping, both for Deck and Boilere.
Call Plag W.
J. W. KEW, Manager.
1st Floor, 3, Canninght Rond
(1703 Hongkong, 13th June, 1903.
Alasku, un by night swarms on the snow of the Molaepina glueinr, but when the sun shines barrows under the surface to a depth of
inches or more,
Tidal power has met with little favour, én acomat of its incovaniaves and cost. It is directly available only in two short periods daily, and the ordinary working hard is s small-not more than six feet-that geest ex- pense is necessary to provide storage-ponds of enitable capacity. Au engineering weiter poin t at that a few places offer conditions that may make the pores profitable. The most con spicuous example is the Day of Fundy, where the tides run normally forty feet high, and fil a natural reservoir of 400 square miles througi Th a channel less than three miles wide. damming of this channel should yield more than
Th 200,000,000 horse power hours daily. atiäsution of this power may be accomplished at some future time, but the engineering feat. will be castly greater than anything yet attempted.
A special anlady of sponge-lishers is due to an actiaty, small caelaterats that lives Du the sponges at depths of 80 to 150 feet. Dr. Slovos Zerves, a Greek physician, states that this parasite is frota half an inch to au inch and a half long, and that the poisonous viscous substance secreted by its teatass produces deep sloughing sores on the naked bodies of the divers. The actinium is also well known as an interual paison, the fishers themselves raixing! it with brand or meat to destroy domestic animals. The toxic principle has been lately found by Chas. Richet to contain two distinct peisoux, one of which-eansing intense congra- tion and hemorrhage has been named “gon gestin," while the other-giving rise to violent irritation is to be known as "thalassin."
Astronomers themselves seem to be tonding now to a lelief in some connection between the moon and the weather. From statistics from various sources Prof. W. J. Pickering has con- cluded that thnaderstorms are really more umerous in the first half of the Inoar mouth then is the last, liability to the storms being greatest between", new moon and test quarter and least butwein full moon and last quarter,
With an opon gauge in a cutral part of Edinburgh, Dr. W. G. Black last year collected
was sounded. dangerous rocas and shoals being discovered, aut 1924 miles of coast-lino were charted Other rocks and shoals reported from various sources numbered 27.
INCOME
doesn't make prosperity if the orpouses are greater. Did you eyor figara out what sickness costs you per year; doctors bills, medicies hills, ato, ale, to say nothing of the sufforing. Rheumatism strikes like & huife in the back if left alone with Porry Davis' Painkiller, tho terrors of this disease are hester off. Pain- killer velieves muscular oratops, lambago, neural- 243-24 ris and scintien.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE..
THE FOURTH DRAWING of SIXTY-
FIVE DEBENTURES of the Hon zkut Hub, Streach, was held in the HONGKONG CLUB HOUSE, on SATURDAY, the 191b inst when the following Debentures were
rawn for redemption :-
TROPHIES
CIGARETTES
MADE FROM THE CHOICEST TURKISH TOBACCO, ARE THE BEST. ASK
YOUR DEALER FOR THIS BRAND.
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NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES.
DYNAMITE,
GELATINE-DYNAMITE,
BLASTING GELATINE AND GELIGNITE,
DETONATORS, SAFETY FUSE,
AND ALL BLASTING ACCESSORIES,
MAGAZINES AND DEPOTS AT
HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, WEIHMWJI.
$
276
579
903
1432
293
5-6
1548
#
300
673
1074
157.
51
674
1085
1580
AGENTS-
85%
718
11:29
149
354
733. 1144
1650
325
1
300
1165
1667
071
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757
107
1688
233
790)
12.M
1723
40
419
13633
1751
219
456
1973
1860
237
512
937
1873
393
1:30
1918
and will be payable at the HONGKONG AND SHAN HATBANKING CORPORATION as the 30 day of SEPTEMBER, 1984, in
By Order, exchange for surrender of same.
C. H. GRACE,^,
Secretary. Hongkong, 21st September, 1903, 12629
NOTICE FOR SALE.
JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.
MIDZUSHIMA & CO.
COAL MERCHANTS.
No. 4. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Pacing Duddall Strent).
HEAD OFFICE: N. 5, SAKAIMACHI, KOBE. BRANCH "OFFICES:-HI USIE-HOMMACHT, MOJL, MINAMIAJIKAWA,
OSAKA AND KAIGAN, WAKAMATSU.
AGENCY MR. S. NAKAYAMA, MOTOMACHI, TOKOH AMA.
(ANITARY DUSTBINS of Approved | TELEGRAPB17 ADDRESS: MIDZUSHIMA. K»b«, Moji, Osaka, Wakamatsu, and Hongkong,
Pastorn. $4.00 earth,
Apply to
SHAM 10.
No. 11, Shia Hing Lane, off No. 103, Hollywood Road, Hongkong, 5th September, 13. CARTRIDGES.
NOBEL'S SPORTING BALLISTITE. Absolutely Smokeless.and Water-insisting THE BEST NITRO-POWDER IN THE WORLD. PRICE OF 12-BORE CARTJU DOBA:—
Loaded with With Pozda Powder only, and Luz, of Sirot.
$8.00 Princose Cases...36.25
6.85 Pegamoil Case ...
for Brass Coser, 750
Apply tr
3.60
3.25
WM. SCHMIDT & CO
Gunmakers.
Hotogkan?
Horody, bra Fely. 1912
BEYER, PEACOCK & CO.,
Loadion Address: 34. Perrowia Streng
Westminster, K. W.
Tri. Addons: "FOLGURE LONDON" Telephone Nun, T4G and 747 Weditste
LIMITED.
Gorton Foundry, Manchester.
ESTABLISHED IN 1854
Wurst Pengepleit Asidomos 2 |
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES
ADAPTED TO EVERY GAUGE AND VARIETY OF SERVICE.
Also ELECTRICAL LOGOMOTIVES and MACHINE TOOLS.
CRANE LOCOMOTIVES FOR
LIFTING AND SHUNTING.
RACK HAIL LOCOMOTIVES, YARD ENGINES, &C.
WHEEL AND OTHER LATHES,
MILLING MACHINES, DRILLS,
PLANERS, SLOTTERS, 40.
COMPOUND ENGINE. ».
EMERY CRINDING MACHINES A SPECIALITY. ·
ALL TOOLS ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN IF REQUIRED.
ALL PARTS OF THE ENCINES AND MACHINE TOOLS ARE SMADE ACCURATELY TO
STANDARD CAUCES.
WORKMANSHIP AND MATERIAL UP TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE. STEEL FOUNDRY for casting Wheel Centres and other parts of Locomotives. Also general CASTINGS & FORGINGS.
כפרי
CODE USED: A1A A. B. C. 4T ED.
the Comp gule des Messageries
Importers of Japanese Couls. Confractors of Coal M writikes de Franes Fovign and Japanse sloana, Austal and Japan Railway Compaules Solo Proprietors of Kanevmoto and Tomara Cof Mines. Sole Agents for Kawariya Komatsuganra, Minamia, Ikajiri nul Kanagaħata Collieries.
Xe.
I CABES OF ABOUT
Hongkong, 4th March, 1903.
K. UYEMURA, Manager,
¡2309
MELLIN'S
FOOD
For INFANTS and INVALIDS.
Purely Vegetable and Untouched by Hand, When prepared MELLIN'S FOOD is free from Starch.
is similar to Breast Milk.
Metes Food Works, Peckham, London, England.
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CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS CHEONG SHING.
450 LBS NET
USED FOR OVER 25 YEARS,
TRADE
MARK
AVENARIUS
BOLINEUM
IN TING OF. 40 ms.
Throughly reliable preservative for Wood and Stone against White Axta, Decay, Fungos Rot, and Dompress.
LUTUENS, EINSTMANN & CO., Bole Agents for China.
[189 Hongkong lat July, 1902.
GENERAL EXPORTERS.
DEALERS IN
JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS, PEARLS PRECIOUS STONES, SLKS, IVORY WARES, EMBROIDERIES AND PONGEE SILK. Wholesal and Retail. Prices very moderata Ao. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite MessIE, C. J. GAUPP & Co.). Hongkong, 16th May. 1983.
$2300
RUINART PERE & FILS, REIMS
Established 1719,
CHAMPAGNE GROWERS AND SHIPPERS.
Ship only the Finest Quality Extra Dry (Green. Saal)
LAUTS, WEGENÉR & CO.
Solo Agents.
Hongkong, 18th May, 1903,
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