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TO LET.
66 TRAKENKNOWE,” No. 35, Conduit Road. Bix Rooms and Garden
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THE FONGKONG DAILY PRFSS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26тm, 1904
NE SPACIOUS NEW GODOWN,
very suitable for Dry Goods. Apply to
W. LYBAUGHT,
153, Wanchai Road. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1903.
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FFICES, CENTRAL POSITION.
OF
No. 6, ROBINSON ROAD,
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No. 3, CONDUIT ROAD, Six roems. Tennis Court.
FURNISHED HOUSE on Lower Lovels. And others to suit various requiremente,
S. A. SETH,
179
TO LET. SIX-ROOMED HOUSE with Large Verandahs. Bathrooms and Outhouses, known at No. 9, Podders Hill.
Į SULENTIFIC
MISCELLANY. while a chronic ulcer borcines gradually covorni
with healthy skin.
DARK BAYB OF GOLIGHT-BLAG CEMENT-
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Amongst its numerous and unique accomplish- meats, radium possesses the power of, im.
diamonds and paste. The real gem respouds at
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MENT OF HEARING-A MECHANICAL DRILL-mediately enabling one to distinguish between once, and takes on a beautiful luminosity in the dark, whereas paste remains dall, Two observers The N-rays of R. Biendlot should interest have recently gone over 15,000 different kinde us especially because they are so common of mineral with radium, the Rintgun rays, and RESTAURANT about us. They were discovered while the light | ultra-violet light, and it is plain that the mere from a Wolsback burner was being concen- application of only a few pounds' worth of
Radium has been found to have a distius; but variable influence on the growth of tadpolos, developmout being slowed, quickened, or perverted.
Privato diuing Handsomely decorated. Cool and pleasant. Bost of attendauer. rooms for parties. Only the best of wines and liquors. Undor the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Newirth.
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Thoroughly modern and up-to-date. attendance.
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trated by a quartz lens on a sulphide of radium in the dark constitutes the simplest, calcium screen, the lens causing the laminosity and, in the long run, the cheapest, test for of the screen to persist after the light was genuine diamone yet discovered. removed. They are now known to exist not Land and Estate Broker only in the incandescent gas but also in the Hongkong, 12th February, 1904,
ordinary gas-flame buraing without a chimy and in the radiation from a red-hot plate of silver or talc, and they excite radio-activity in various substances, such as a plate of lead. The invisible raya can be defected by the slight in- crease of luminosity of a phosphorescent screen or of a very small gas-flame. These rays seem to be given off by the buman body, and D'Arsontal NMAGAZINE GAP.
TO. 2, "MAGDALEN TERRACE," has shown that a screen of platinocyanide of
harina, made slightly luminous by radiant ad from the most ouergetic raogs of other IF YOU HAVE ACQUIRED A TASTE FOR Apply to
SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong 1st, July, 1903, TO-LET.
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(533 Hongkong, 18th February, 1904.
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FLOOR of No. 4. Des THE GROUN. Now in the occupation of Guarantee Trust Co. of Now York.
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HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
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T1904
The Suite of ROOMS (2), on the GROUND FLOOR of the Hongkong Club Annex, Suitable for Offices:
For particulars apply to the undersigned.
C. H. GRACE, Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1904. [569
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From 1st March.
NEWLY-BUILT HOUSE in Bonham A Road, forected on Lot 591).
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40 & 86, WING LOK STREET. Hongkong, 20th February, 1904,
TO LET.
in Kowloon at moderate rentals,
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND
FINANCE CO., LD. Hongkong, 6th January, 1904,
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lights up or approach to a musslo, and is so sensitive that it can show the course of a nervo under the skin.
While bydraulic comaut from blast furnace slag was made in London many years ago. the inclastry does not seem to have become per- The manufacture of Portland cement matent. from slag and limestone has now been begun in Germany and Belgiam, and the prodact is claimed to be cheaper and more trustwortity Lam that from the usual materials. Hortar of one part of sing moment to three of sand had a tensile strength of 383 pounds per square inch after 7 days, increasing to 551 pounds in 28 days,
THE NEW AFRIKANDER.
All thinkers are agreed that the ultimato destiny of this continent is magnificent. They differ in opinion in respect of its transitory changes, not its final form. That the Dutch and British elements here will eventually merge into ne virile raco, strongthened by streams of countries, may be confidently predicted; and the Afrikander of the future should be-pay, it is safe to say will bo-a grand specimen of the genus man.
The world has seen with admiration, not unmixed with dismay, the marvellous energy evolved by the fusion of races in America. Here, in South Afrion, in the years to come, we shall witness the sumo thing reparted on a vastly larger scals, with the added advantage of the experience of the Americans to guide as, whose errors we hope to avoid while striving to repeat their saccess.
At the class of their long and devastating war, the Americans awoke to the graud possi bilities of their country, and proceedsit to develop them with admirable skill and industry. But oven the best of virtues have their darker si e, and in their foverish haste to achieve material success the Americans denied them- In late experiments of Jenson, isolated cancer selves time for exting; with the result that they cells retained their vitality for 18 days at 1 dog-east them untold misery and countless dollars. became a nation of dyspeptics, a fact which has
to 3 deg. C., 12 days at room temperature, and perished in 24 hours at body temperature, Bright light was capidly destructive, as was also carbolic seid:
The evil is better understood and more generally avoided by Americans now; and besides their scientifle research has provided an antidote in Mother Seigal's Curative Syrup.
That' our people for years past have boon subject to the same sort of danger, te expor A still unexplained effect of the electricience of Mr. A. Donet, of Clarendon Crescent, light somewhat resembles mild sunburn and Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth, will prove,
In certain open coke furnaces, where air in admitted through openings and the gas from the bituminous coal is barned in the apparatus, carbon is deposited in the win-
outrance from Ice House Street. WO ROOMS, suitable for Office use, gular form of masses of fine threads. These deposits, which they call carbon wool, ar Apply to-
found by two French chemists to occur in geode-like cavities in the coke, and the finer "filamenta ore skont 0.0008 inches in diameter, while the coarser ones range from 0.0012 to 0.0035 inches, the length being vanally about 2 isches. The filamonts are formed of rings, of
Fine turnouts for the guests of the hotel. Elegant rubber-tirad earringos, fist horson, good coachmen. The Now Oriente Hotel is now opon for inspection.
SIMON SCHNEER & CO.,
PROPRIETORS,
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES
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A GOOD SMOKE AT MODERATE COST,
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JAPAN
COALS.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
(MITSUI & CO)
HEAD OFFICE-1, SURUGA-CHO, TOKYO, LONDON BRANCH:- 34, Lima Štrket, E.C.
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HONGKONG BRANCH-PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, Ice House STREET
OTHER BRANCHES:
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Telegraphic Address: “MITSUI" (A.B.C. and A. I Codes).
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsonals and the State
Railways; Principal. Railway Coapanise and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers. 80LE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; Yand SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hondo, Kanada, Fajinotana, Mameda, Monnonra,Ouonra Otenji.
Basaharu Taubakuço, Yoshinotani, Yoshio, Yunokibara, and other Coals.
N. INUZUKA, Manager. Honkong
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Writing on the 19th September, 1903, to Sunstroke. The heat of the electric arc am-
Mosure, A. J. White (Colonial) Ltd; corner of played in the reducing furance is so concentrated Princes and Dissol Streets, Port Elizabeth, that it melte steel like tallow, but the ther-Capo Colony (proprietors in South Africa of mometer a dozen yards away in scarcely affected, Mathor Suigel's Carative Syrup), Mr. Donet Boys: "Twenty-five years ago, when I was a Even at this distance from the beat, however, young man, I had a very serious illness. My ON or about 15th February next, HOUSES persons experience a burning of the face and liver was sluggish, and I suffered from soute other exposed skin much like that produced by indigestion. For days together I was to ment intensely hot sunshine. The skin becomes ed by excruciating pains all over my body, but more particularly in my stomach, shoulders, and deeply bronzed, and there is temporary blindness back. Sometimes the symptoms would change, New
the eyes.
and I would almost faint or fall asleep even in natural light, with pain in
when walking outdoors. My legs seemed to followed by headache and insomnia.
give way, and I felt that they were too weak to support me. In this way 1 suffered for many months. Doctor after doctor attended me, but not one of them seemed to know what was the matter, and it is certain that I derived no benefit from their medisines. At last I began to think that I should never get relief in this world, when my father advised me to try Seigel's Syrup. It is a safe and cartain remedy for much of the trouble you are suffering from,' said be, and if it does yon no good. I don't think it can possibly make you worse than you. ura.'--I was now desperate, and being anxious to try augthing which might do good, I obtain- ed a bottle of the Syrup and bogan to take it. Its beneficial effect was almost immediately apparent, and after I had taken it for a week, I felt considerably better. I continual to take the medicine, and by the time I had duished the second bottle I was quite well. Indigestion, Oxygen has been obtained from liquid air by giddiness, drowsiness, and pains had all dig- distillation, the nitrogen passing off first and appeared, and I could find some pleasure in life the last 10 per cent, being about 20 per cent. again. From that day to this I have been z oxygen. The oxygen volatilises first, but sisorm believer in the curative power of Mother Seigel's Syrup, and am careful never to be condenses while the nitrogen is still in gaseous without a supply of it in my house; for not only form, and U. Georges Clande has devised a is it a sure cure for indigestion, but as a regula new apparatus in which a partially frozen
has no equal." stream of air is made to return against fresi air, when it gives up nitrogen and takes orygen, One end of the apparatus is thus made to give out nearly pure nitrogen and the other nearly pure oxygen, 1200 cubic feet of. 92 per cent.. oxygen per hour having boon obtained,
SECRETARY,
Hongkong, 6th February, 1904.
Masonic Hall,
[522
TO LET (FURNISHED).
FRO, The Peak, known as ROM 1st May, the BUNGALOW on The Summer House."
Apply to
J. V. Y. VERNON, Hongkong, 28th January, 1994.
TO LET.
Care of H. and S. Bank. NOS. 15 & 17, SEYMOUR ROAD.
Hongkong, 15th February, 1904.
TO LET (FURNISHED),
For 6 months from 1st April, 1904.
66 GSFORD,"
(519
SIX-ROOMED
EHOUSE at the PEAK
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LINSTEAD & DAVIS.
(271 Hongkong, 19th Jounary, 1904.
TO LET
Hom 31st December, 1903. IJOUSE No. 2, QUEEN'S GARDENS as
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Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 12th December, 1903,
TO LET
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FIRST and SECOND FLOORS of No. 34,
F Queen's Road Central, opposite the
General Post Office, after March 31st, 1904, at present occupied by Messrs. Powell & Co., and This house is The Cosmopolitan Hease. espacially suitable for people who are seeking places for hotel purposes.
Please apply to
YEE SANG FAT,
at the above address.
Hongkong, 9th December, 1903
TO LET
THE EYRIE" (PEAK).
*THE
[360
ALEXANDRA" BUILDINGS, Rooms
on the Top Floor.
(370
Nos. 4, 8, & 12, CASTLE ROAD. GODOWN, No. 32B, PRAYA EAST.
Apply to--
COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,
Nippon Yasen Kaisha. Hongkong, 5th February, 1904.-
TO LET.
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TO. 1, RIPON TERRACE (in FLATS).
No.
No. 4, RIPON TERRACE.
No. 10, MACDONNELL ROAD.
No. 15, WONG-NEI-CHONG BOAD, facing Race-couras.
which six were soon in 1-250th of an incl.
To train deaf-routes to hear and to measure their sense of hearing have been subjects of experiment in Europe by Dr. Marage. Asien giving novel seanda was used, and the intensity of the sound as it became audibls became pro-
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing the Polo Ground,
OFFICES in course of erection, CONNAUGHTgressively less, many cases of completo deafness | ROAD (Dear BLAK FIEP).
GODOWNS No, SA, BLUE BUILDINGS. GODOWNS; PRAYA EABT,
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being thus mode to give place in six weeks to the power of hearing ordinary sounds. The treatment proved to be pleasing instead of THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST fatiguing or painful. The bearing was measur
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1904
TO LET.
175ed at different stages of the treatment by the air pressure necessary to make the siren audible, and the resnits were claimed to indicate that few persons are deaf and dumb beyond all cure.
MURNISHED or UNFURNISHED. “LA HACIENDA, West Mount Kellett. From 1st March to 31st October, 1904.
Apply to E., J. LIBEAUD,
Care of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ld.
[489 Hongkong, 26th January, 1904,
TO LET.
Shamson, Canton.
NE or more FURNISHED ROOMS, in to 1 MATHESON STREET, Wanchuileút situation.
Apply to
(Godown)
No. 14, BELILIOS TERRACE,
Nos. 15.& 17, MOSQUE JUNCTION. [
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS.
[397
Hongkong, 18th February, 1904.
lovel.
TO LET,
DACHELOR Quarters; Fine Ecomus and Bview; seel and convenient; Caine Road
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W. R.. Case of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 30th January, 1904.
TO LET.
[384
ND and 3D FLOORS, No, 85, QUEEN's
ROAD CENTRAL; suitable for Office.
Apply to—⠀
WING CHEONG, 35, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 3rd November, 1903.
174
X. X..
Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 25th February, 1904.
TO LET.
1589
The novel-drilling tool of Mr. Charles Sim, mors, of London, enables cue man to do mining hitherto requiring two men. To an iron upright or spreader bar, about 9 feet in beight, is attach. ed a small cylinder, and an ordinary Cont drill passing through this cylinder is held in rigid position by a powerful spring and grip lever. The drill is revolved by a foot lever working in conjunction with a piston.
An alternating current of high frequency is used by Dr. J. Canningham Bowie in the electric treatment of consumption. In practice
TN Savoy Chambers, Robinson Road, Kow-it bas ranged from 200 to 800 milli-amperes and IND, FOUR ROOMS FLAT, provided from 50 to 70 volts, and has bain applied from with Kitobom, Bathrooms and Water Service, Rent Moderate.
Apply to
MIDZUSHIMA & CO.
COAL MERCHANTS.
No. 4, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Facing Duddell Street).
HEAD OFFICE: No. 5, SAKAIMACHI, KOBE,
BRANCH OFFICES:-HIGASHI-HOMMACHI, MOJI, MINAMI-AJIKAWA,
OSAKA AND KAIGAN, WAKAMATSU,
AGENCY
MR. 8. NAKAYAMA, MOTOMACHI YOKOHAMA.
tor of the system and purifier of the blood it TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MIDZUSHIMA. Kebe, Moji, Osaka, Wakamatsu, and Hongkong
After war, depression; aftor depression, revival and progress, The outlook for our country is good-worthy of the great race now being evolved
HIRANO WATER. THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.
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PURE, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING
THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST Bottled in Japan by H. E. REYNELL & Co..
BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONS.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGENTS, Hongkong, 31st July, 1903,
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GRACA & CO., FOREIGN AND COLONIAL STAMP
DEALERS,
No. 68, PEEL STREET, HONG KOKI, Will be glad to send STAMPS on approval to any address on receipt of satisfactory refer
JUCOR.
Are also prepared to purchase used POSTAGE STAMPS in Large or Small Quantities for Cash AGENTO WANTED, 15 to 25 per cent. Discannt Allowed,
BOARD AND RESIDENCE
"TANG YUEN." BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT.
331
European Supervision. Eresllent Cuisine and Accommodation.
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MANAGERESS,
Macdonnell Road
QF FAIRALL & CO., Queen's Road (71 Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
10 to 20 minuter. Almond oil containing MRS.
iodine, thy met, and other antiseptics was injected M
into the larynx. The curative effect was noted much more quickly than with the antiseptic oile [583 alone, and the experimenter is satisfied that the
current has an important healing influence.
Mears DOOLITTLE & POLLOCK, of the Anglo-American Stores, 1 & 3, Wellington Street. Hongkong, 25th February, 1904,
TO LET.
NO. 5 and 6: BARROW TERRACE
Kowloon Available Let Marah. Apply to
THE SAM WANG CO., LD. Hongkong, 5th February, 1904. [428
A sheet of silver is the dressing applied by
Dr. Baboul, a French physician, to wounds It has remarkable antiseptic properties, and a fresh wound heals quickly without suppaastion,
GILLANDERS,
* GLENWOOD, 21,
CAINE ROAD. Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
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CODE USED: A 1 & A. B. C. 4ru ED.
Importere of Japanese Couls. Contractors of Coal to the Compagnie des Messag=rio+ Maritimes de France, Foreign and Japanese steamers, Arsenal and Japanese Railway Companies, &o. Sole Proprietors of Kumamoto and Tesoara Coal Mines. Sole Agents for Kawamiya, Komatengaura, Minamis, Ikejiri and Kumagahata Collieries.
THE BRWESEY LARGEST
Hongkong, 4th March, 1903,
BUDWEISER
BEER
EXTRA PALE LAGER IN CLEAR BOTTLES, OF UNIVERSAL POPULARITY. ANHEUSER DUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION, ST. LOUIS.
IN THE WORLU,
QUALITY LEADS IN OUTPUT ANT
This Beer is brewed of best Baasor Hops and finest Barley Malt only, and warranted not to contain Chemicals in any form.
The Beer is storilised after being bottled, and fuil mature age insures its fine condition in any climate. Beautifully bright, seductively spark. ling, and perfectly pare.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Bole Agents. Hangkong, 25th July 1903.
PLATED, GLASS
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A. LING & 00 FURNITURE STORE.
ANU CROCKERY WARE, &c. &c.; and FOOCHOW LACQUERED WARE. 68, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Hongkong, 21st September, 1008,
ON SALE.
[314
C ROOMS, with Board.
OMFORTABLY FURNISHEITOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG
Apply to Mrs. MATHER,
2. Pedder's HiLL Hugkong, 1st January, 1894
i
WEEKLY PRESS, JANUARY, to JUNE 1903. With INDEX, Price $7.50.
On sale at the Hongkong Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 25th July, 1908,
K. UYEMURA, Manager
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MITSE BISHI DOCKYARD
AND ENGINE WORKS,
·NAGASAKI.'
CODE WORD: “DOCK,” NAGASAKI. A.1, A. 3.C., Ecotts' wid Engineering Codse Used.
DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAML) Extreme Length... Length on Blocka
523 feet. 513 89
Width of Entrance on Top
Width of Entrance ou Bollora... 77
Water on Blocks at Spring Tida 284
DOCK No. 2 fa£ MUKAIJIMA.) Extreme Longth... Length on Blocks
17
371 feet,
350
Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Bottom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
86
*P1
#+
像要
22
"
PATENT SLIP (at KOSUGE).
Car take vessels up to 1,000 tons grDES.
THE WORKS are well equipped with the 且 LATEST IMPROVEMENTS8 and can execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD. ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as Wall as in REPAIRING of SHIPS.
The COMPANY has 1 SALVAGE STEAMER, 712 TONS GROSS, FITTED with POWERFUL SALVAGE PLANT READY at SHORT NOTICE.
1677
ON SALE.
THE ROVINCE OF SHANTUNG.
PLOTADE POPULATION AND FUTURE
PROSPECTS.
BY M. O'S. Reprinted from the "HONGKONG DAILY.PRES” Prics, 50 cents Cash, Mesara, Kelly & Walak or Daily Press Offica
Hongkong, 31st January, 1900