SPECIAL SALE
AT
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OF
PIANOS. PIANOLAS.
MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
OF ALL KINDS
PREVIOUS TO REMOVAL.
The following Pinuos ava thoroughly wound-
and reliable, and aro
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, £EPTEMBER 2ND, 1905.
THE JAPANESE FORCES IN THE
FIELD.
According to the Bueski Invalid the Russian official sstimate of the Japanese army in the field is 19 divisions (of which six are newly formed) and 22 reserve brigades, of which night aro composed of 'dopot troops."
The number of battalions vary in total between 188 and 404, which gives 130,000 to 450,000 bayonete. The cavalry, without counting the reserve and depot cadrer, total at lezat 17 rogiments. The let Army (Kuroki) forms the right wing of the Japanese front, and com prises three first line divisions (Guard, 2nd, and 12th), four reserve brigades, and two lepot brigades. Sinen the battle of Mukdon It is holieved that the 1st Army has been rein- forced by two newly formed divisions. It therefore totals from 104 to 103 battalions, equivalent to 115,000 to 1:20,000 bayonets. The 2nd Army (Oku) furnishes the left of the
force. Japanese main
. It is Compeed of four livet line divisions (3rd,
4th. aud Rtb), two recently formed risons, two
reserve brigades, and two depot brigades. The number of battalions in probably, from 100 to 104; the total number of bayonots is, therefore, 110,000 to 115,000. The 3rd Arany (Nogi) is somewhat dotached to the loft of Oku. It consists of thres firat line divi- sions (1st. 7th and 9th), one newly formel division, and at least one depot brigade. This army has 76 to 80 battalions, and consequently from 85,050 to 30,000 bayonota. The 4th Arney (Nedze) forms the centre of the Japanese ormy It consists of two first line divisions (6th and 10th) and two reserve brigaden, making in all 40
The St Aroy (Kawamura) forms the extreme right of the Japanese line, and is composed of the 11th Sute Former (first line) Division, ons newly formed division, Price, Price, thres reserva brigaless, and throu dspot brigades, $150 $475 which gives from ti to 72 battalions-te.. 73,000 to 80,000 hayonets. In consideration of these 180 250 figuras and those that must be enteistad for 200
in the recent mebilution of an army destined to operate in the maritime province, não fade that the Japanese fores present at the theatre of war should reach the total of 550,000 to 600,000
GUARANTEED
FOR THE CLIMATE
Intruding buyers should-not miss this most favourable opportunity of securing one of these Great Bargains.
UPRIGHT-PIANOS battalion-with-45,000-bayozots.
Maker.
LUNAN
480
525
450
CABIN PIANO
HOPKINSON
PLEYEL
295
OWN MAKE (R.P. Co.) 300
SCHLEDMAYER
320
KIRKMAN..
825
480
STUART
335
450
ROSENUBA NE
350
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212.
LOG RAFTS DANGEROUS,
"Humanity” writes to the Straits Times --- Sir-I notice in your paper of yesterday that 500 it is proposal to tow a great raft of ten thousand feet of logs across the Pacife Ocean from OWN MAKE (OVER)
British Columbin to Shanghai, I have lived for STRUNG) 385
500 several years where these rafts are construated, 400
600) for trasportation of logs along the Pacific Coast of North America from northern to more 400 500 southerly ports, and have had an opportunity to know that they are considered a serious 700 500
mense to bavigation by steamship companies and 525 600 seafaring men. The great storms which often come unexpectedly upon that coast have broken up several of these rafts, scattering immense
BROADWOOD
SPAETHE
COLLARD
HAAKE
RACHALS
575
750
KRAUSS
585
650
HOPKINSON
000
WINKLEMANN STEINVEG...
075 700
JOINTS STOCK SHARES.
number of meals with adrantage. The "no- breakfast" plan bad many disciples. Most madical men boknowledged nowadays that we Messrs. Vernon & Smyth say in their weakly, eta too much, but the physiological food mini-ahore report dated Hongkong, 1st Septembe mam had yet to be ascertained. Fat, Dr. Haddon | 1905 ---A fair business has been transacted dur- ragestod da a lisonage, marking the beginning of ing the wook, and the declaration of peace has the failare of: some organe.
fans. Bir William Banks, atendied the market in most stocks, the chief after exhaustive inquiry, came to the conclusion improvement has been in Docks. that the increase of cancer was due to changed. BANKS--Hongkong & Shanghais, contrary listetic habits of life. Personally, he looked for
all expectations, have receded to $830, after the day when food would becomes the physic of add at $75. The fall is chiefly attributable to the people. The future cook would be much like rias in exchange which has more than the present chemist, knowing the chemical con counteracted the firmness expected from the stitution and physiological action of nach, and declaration of peace. The market dogs with nerving it up so as to keep us in health and buyers at 5880. Nationals remain with buyers vigour, and not merely to tickle the appetite.
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TROPICAL ACCLIMATISATION.
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MABINE INSURANCES, Unions changed hands in the early part of the week at $760 in fair lots, and later a sale was affected at $770, market closing steady at the latter rats, Chine Traders have improved to $81, with sales at 38 ) $81 and 882 Cantone, after further sales at $335, have been placed at $340,
Docks, WHALVES GODOWKS-Hong-
In regard to the acclimatisation of the white man in tropical lands, sanitation has wrought wonderful changes in the bathinoss of all tropical countries, says the Rangoon Gazetée. FIRE INSURANCE, Hongkonga romain The Istler had been considered wait for the unchanged with small antes at $335, closing with
of permanent uttlement of white men becanic
sellers. Things have improved to $844 with sales. the climate, or, to be more correct, on account
SRIPPING. Hongkong, Canton and Macaos, of the hent, because the word climate" is used with no shares to satisfy the demand at $26, as synonymous with heat. Heat is supposed bayers, have had to raise the mute to $264 and to induce deterioration and diseases such a orea at that rate uo shares appasr to be obtain. anemia, lirer abscess, and sunstroke. But able. Iudo-Chinas have ruled wask with but a anemia is not due to boat, being in the tropies all business at $95, of time of writing shares asympton common to several parasitic disssses are obtainable at 894. No other business Liver abscess is likewise of parasitic origin or changes to report zuder this heading. and sunstroke is a microbic disease, however REFINERIES-China Sugars changed hands paradoxical the statement may appear, obaccount in fair lots over the settlements at from $229 of the mistaken etiology perpetuated by an to $93, and are now firmer with bayers at $234 erroneous nomenclature; As for deterioration, after sales at $233. Forward sales have been it in far more storming in the overcrowded citiaffected ut rates from $234 to 214 for Decam of the West thau in the tropical colonies or ber Lazoas unchanged and without business. India and Burma. The goographical distri MINING. Nothing to report. bution of tropical diseases is of the importance in the study of acclimatisation, Leases being due to living organisms that have their peculiar dissemination like all other forms of life, this distribution is likewise determined by a variety of circumstances, among which meteorological conditions are certainly import. ant, but association and competition mere so. Under proper management European children du very well in India, Burma, und in, tropical colonies generally in the most unhealthy of theer, the infant mortality is Iurer than in some districts of Europe. The belief, again, that white men can not labour in the tropics is. dieprored by frets. That man is capable of adaptation to a now climate is shown by the fact that he has constantly moved from one region to another. If attempts at colonisation in the past have often been unsuccessful and always cost immense sucrifices in lives and money, it is beanse they have been made in complete ignorance of the conditions essential to success. Acclimatisation is a more question of hygions, and what is needed above all is a complete knowledge of tropical disenãos.
kong and Whamuse AD GROWS, Hong- settlements at $191, bare improved to SDS with sales. Kowloon Wharves have been placed at 20, 809 and 8083, closing steady at the last rate. Farnhams are quoted from Shanghai at Tis. 144 buyers.
LANDS HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong- kong Tande have ruled easier with sellers at $125 and with little or no business. Humphreys have been under en placed at sle. No other business
beading.
COTTON MILIS.-Evos have improved to Tls, 50 with buyers, Hongkongs, after argull sales at $16, are offering at $15.
MISCELLANEOUsUnited Asbestos,
Old
Electrics and Powells are enquired for in a amall way at quotations. Watsons and Dairy Farms have changed hands. Other than these we are nothing to report-under this heading
CHURCH SERVICES.
ST. PETSE'S CHERCH, Queen's Road West. Sunday. Holy Communism, 7.30... Morning prayer 11 am-Yenito, Turner; Te Deum, Wood- ward: Jubilate, Haves: Hymns, 9, 148, 34, and
Magnificat, Cooke: Nuae Dimittis, Macfurren Hruns, 325, 168, 219, and 11. Holy Communion 7.45 pan.
togs in thedirect path of navigation to the serious THE DUTIES OF BRITISH-CONSULS. 3). Holy Communion, 12.15. Evening Prayer.
peril of vessels plying along the coast. Where 750 the entire raft is not destroyed, it often occurs that a part of it is washed away from the main 750
It body is almost a dead certainty that such 858 raft as it is proposed to take across the Pacific will not reach its destination intact. The danger to the fast linors piring between Hongkong and British Columbia and Hongkong and San Francisco, 17-kuot vessels and better, is by no means slight, and I believe that the Press of this side of the ocean as well as the other would do 700 grant service to the steamship companies as well ns to endangered passengers by frowning pan the proposed enterprise. Should one of these 750 fost vessels strike a solitary log sad on, on its trip across the Pacific, hundreds if not thousands of miles away from land, the danger to the vessel would be of grote a character as to make almost certain the loss of the lives of every person on board.
GRAND (Small & Large) PIANOS. COLLARD $300 formerly 3650 BROADWOOD 390 COLLARD (as New)
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A NURSES NXPERIENCES.
To the Nursing Times a nurse recounts her adventures on her way to the for interior of South Africa before the war. She had arrived in Beita on her way to Umtali, and bad three days to wait for the weekly mail trail, cked in she tells us, a young man arrived, in khaki breeches and a white cellular shirt, tie, end s big straw hat. He said he had been asked by the archdeacon to met me. He seemed a very excellent young man, so I gave myself over to his guidance, and consented to go to the hotel he advised. Then, to my bowilderment, there descended upon me another young man, somewhat ilder then the first, this time clad in the irreproachable garments of civilization in Beira-viz., a white suit and green-lined helmast. This arrival claimed to be the English Consul, and therefore father, as he said, to any The legging companies say that the loss of a belated English female he might find by the raft now and then is more than compensated for way. He produced a letter from the Bishop of Mashonaland, my superior, plainly showing that reach their destination. The peril to steamships I was his special charge. Of course, I must and their human and other freight is, af come to the Consulate. I wwe dharmed If you suffer from any disenar dae to an inpure. Late of the Bhol, pany WHATEVER CAUAE ARIPING, course, & matter of no importance to them. with the Coueniats, but I was a-little- you shonid test the value of Clarke's Binal Mixture There have been many mysterious founderings surprised not to be greeted on my arrival the work-farment Blal Purifior a eztorer. This on the Pacific Coast, and whether any of them by the Consul's wife. As it was about eleven alicine has 40 years' reputation, and is foulay more
pular than over, the reason of this being undoubted problems which will always remain an open
vere caused by encountering floating loga ia ao clock in the morning. I thought perhaps fybncave this wonderful remedy does what it Prefewn to - CURES SKIN AND BLOOD question. At any rate, it is, so it seems to me. extremely unwice that such dangers should be placed in the track of the much faster vessels which ply across the ocean, in a portion (on the northerly runte) tempestuons ut narly all a sons and, hence, exceptionally dangerous to
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OVER EATING AND ILL HEALTH.
that good lady might be shopping, and so dispraised my astonishment when the Consul himself conducted me to my bedroom to have a wash and brush up before breakfast. When, However, I reappeared to find a dainty breakfast spread on the verandah, and only two places laid, my astonishment overcome my manners. I blurted out to Mr, who came forward to great me. Why where is your wito ?? And then I learnt that in savage countries the laws of conventionality exist hurdly at all, that he had no wife-she had died some three At the Health Congress. Hr. Joku addon months before of blackwater fever and timt read a paper on "Diet in the Treatment and
it was quite all right. He was looked upon as Prevention of Discuse," favouring vegetarianism.
a married man, and a father and a chaperon to Solie, a German, whose case was reported upon unprotected females like myself; and, in fact, by a medical committee in 1876, and published staying in a house alone with a man you'd never in the Lancet, reuchel the of 180
age
met in your life before was quite the usual and sparities, from whatever sans arising. For Haute only one meal a day, took all his food cold, proper thing to do! Well, the man was a ate butcher's meat only twice a week, and fasted
gentleman, and the Bishop had placed nie in his twice each month, taking nothing on these occa- sione but water. He declared that he could eat as care, so I resigned myself to this extraordinary much in half an hour as he could digest in state of affairs, and thoroughly enjoyed my hours, and no doubt he was right. Dr. Haddon three days' wait."
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and warranted free from anything paper had himself lived on one meal a day. jarin to the most delicate constitution of either eating no animal product except butter, and
AMERICAN CONSULS.
Thanks to American adaptability, quick porception and readiness to profit by experience," Frederick W. Soward writes to the Tribune of. New York, some excellent consals have been
sex, from iulnoy to old age, and the Proprietors until he did so had never realised how good developed out of very unpromising material. Hulioit aufforem to give it a tříni to test its vaino,
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TRIED MANY THINGS WITHOUT BENEFIT UNTIL I TOOK CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE.
Mr. F. E. Lewin, 18 Bridge Street Row. Chester, writes Just a line in favour of Clarke's Blood Mixture lad oceans for even months, and tried many things without benefit until I took your remedy. After the eighth bottle I was quite well again. Plane necot this letter as a token of gratita to to your wonderful 'Clarke's Blood Mirtaše.”—June 31,'1003.
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be inclined to doubt if we could live on one meal American cousal would acquire knowledge of a day, Prof. Chittenden's work had proved that his dailes, and then, after his had become the even athletes, after a six months trial, were i equal of his colleagues, he would be suddenly better in overy way and more vigerens when dismissed to make room for a new one as they ate from one-third to one-half of the proteid ignorant ne he had been. Secretary Hay, whose food they were accustomed to. If one daily death the whole nation is deploring, made meal was thought impracticable at present with many earnest efforts to introduce the plan of ordinary people, they might at least lessen the promotions by merit in the consular servicə,”
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