INTIMATIONS. WANTED.
YOUNG CLERK, must be a Quick
Writer and Typist. Apply lo
ROBINSON PIANO Co
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1906
DOCTOR WANTED.
act SURGEON
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[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
12th
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 8г¤, 1906......
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY
THE NEW ATOM—MOISTURE FOR THE HOUSE -INCANDESCENT OIL LIGHTS-OHANGING ELEMENTS-DIVVISION OF BAZIDS-MANU- SCRIPT. PHOTOGRAIRYT – RECOURS OF THE BODY'S ELKCTRIC WAVEH-LIGHTNING-MADE MAGNETS.
TWENTY FIRST ANNUAL OR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING of tho Company (since ita registration) will be held at the Offices of the Company in ÁLSTANDRA BUILDINGS, on SATURDAY, the Tho electron, as defined by Prof. Soddy, is instant, at 11.30 4.3 for the purpose of an slectrica conception that has been applied an Emigrant receiving the Report of the General Managers to matter. It is a definito charge the together with a Statement of Accounts to the smallest possible-of negative electdeity, and 31st December, 1905.
The REGISTER of SHARES will bait properties, urlike thoan of the atom, arð CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 9th inst., rlways fas some. It isn particle smaller than to TUESDAY, the 151 inst., both days the atom, which was long roguided as tho' inclusive, du ing which period no Transfer of
smallest division of an element. Enel atom of Shires will be Registered.
catter mast normily costsin of least one electron, and it may loss this or take on al feast one more without great change. With one.or more electrous less that the normal, the atom becomes positively charged, or a positive ion,
For Particulare, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. [945 Hongkong, 23rd April, 1908.
STAMPS.
WANTED FOR CASH or EXCHANGE, KING'S HEAD STAMPS of Straits, Hongkong and Caylon. Baying rates on application. GEO. E. ANTHONIS%, "Ses Spray, Colpetty, Colombo, Ceylon.
Colombo, 14th April, 1906.
COLD STORAGE.
992
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, D., have now 40,000 Cubro feat of Coli Sterngo available at EAST INT. Stores will be Open at 18 4.M. and F. daily, Sunday excepted to receive and deliver perishable goede.
WM. PARLANE, Managor, 147 Hongkong, 18th November, 1801.
UINART PERE & FILS, REIMS.
RUIN
Established 1719,
CHAMPAGNE GROWERS AND
SHIPPERS.
Ship only the Finest Quality Extra Dry (Grees Seal).
LAUTS, WEGENER & CO..
Sole Agents,
Boughong, 17th May, 1905
122
AVID CORSAR & BON'S
DMELCHANT NAVY
851
NAVY BOILED
LONG FLAX
RELIANCE CROWN TARPAULING
CANVAS
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Bola Arents
A. LING 880 00.,
FURNITURE STORE.
PLATED GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, &o.. &; and FOOCHOW LACQUERED WARE.
68, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong. 21st September, 1903.
DR. M. H. CHAUN,
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TSYSTEM of DENTISTRY.
THE IntArt Mathod of the AMERICAN
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Bengkong, 4th September, 1905
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SURGEON
DENTIST.
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Consultation Free.
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AUTOMATIO MAUSER
PISTOLS.
DALIBRE 7.63 m.p. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGE FIRING 10 810TS in 2 SECONDS.
SIENSSEN & £0. uzkosz. 3rd October, 1905.
M
ITSU BISHI
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GOSHI KWAISRA
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
[1003 Hongkong, Ist May, 1906.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC Go., LTD.
| AFGHANISTAN'S ́ANCIENT KINGS.
DISCOVERY OF TREASURE AND A RUINED CITY.
Writing of the Ameor of Afghanistan's weant tour in his dominions, Reuter's ræpondent says that soon after his arrival at Jellalabad the Ameer is said to have received
$16.00
WILL, BUT A CASE OF Peshawar.cor
GREGOR & CO.'S
rings of Zaman, consisting of gold and eller IMPERIAL
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letter from his son. Prince luavatalla Khan, nonicing that while constructing a road in the Kohistan Illogan-transure was found in the
catus of ancient Kings. Two companies of Sappers and miners have ban despatched under the o mand of Colonel Mohamad Nabi Klina gaard the ta naure. On reading this newe the Ameer said in Darbar that it was to him a Dol-nant help in the performance of his dutica towards his subjects. Another letter hos now been received from Sirdar Abdulla Kina Tokti, Governor of Balakh, stating that while He pensants were preparing their land for ealtivation they sums upon som ruins, which of Earther examination proved to be wall onclosures of u rain city. The Governor
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the while an atom with one or more electrons in huself visited the spot, and foul the ruins of
SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY excess is a negative for.
GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders will be held at the Company's Offiens, Sr. GORGE'S BUILDING, on SATURDAY, the 12th May, at o'clock Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors, together with statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1995, and slecting Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 28th April to 12th May, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Aports, Hongkong, 24th April, 1996.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
a largo city, with some gold coins, the
hed heard
from thuir
ancestors that a large vicinity, which had been destroyed long since, and that in the enins were buried the treasur of the Katie kinge. Some of the coins wore sent to the Amor for inspection. This dis- the Ameer, and be has written to the Governor covery was also regarded as a good omen by to guard the place well and make excavatinos to discover the treasure, ordering that every- tag found is to do despatched with care to Kubul.
on which nobody could read. Theyrer.ption Some years ago the addition of moisture to afghan Turks said the city oxisted in the furnace-heated air was found by Dr. B. J. Barnes of Boston to make a room emiertable at a temperature several dozvees lower. fu his recent investigationin South-EasteraNebraska, G. A. Loveland has shows that the air of house of 14,000 cubic feot shanlik rescije from 20 to40quarts of waterlily, and that this evapora- tion does not incr 'the relative humidity by more than 10 per cont. The buridiy indoors abculd not exoser about 4 per cent., otherwise there will be troublesome condeantion ou the windows.
A now incandescent light need ordinry petroleum without a wick, and a tabearly one- eighth of an inch outside supplies the oil, which
VETO IN THE COLONIES.
HIGHLAND
WHISKY
(RED TRIANGLB),
GREGOR & CO.,
9, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Isr FLOOR.
THEATRE
CITY HALL.
ROYAL
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GREATEST SUCCESS THAT HAS EVER VISITED HONGKONG, HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY.
GREAT THURSTON,
WORLD'S MASTER MAGICIAN. SPECIAL MATINEE MAY 12TIL SPECIAL TRAMS WILL BE RUN TO THE PEAK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE.
WINFIELD BLAKE AND MISS MAUD AIBER,
If there were any approach to consistency in THE forthwith exercise voto power to compol the Radical political athies, the Government would
Colonies to open their doors to all emigraate irrespective of race or color. It is absurdly illogical
to claim that power to banish the pourized and miced with air before being hisaman from South Afrion against the desirs burned in ibu mautic. The light is claimed to
of the white settlers, while refasing to exorciso in softer and more diffusive than any other.it, in a strictly collateral matter, in other parta One gallon of oil is sufficient for a 1,000 candle of the Empire. From su Imperial standpoint.
It is of the Beal cous-gnenne to gliminate, as for pocar lamp for fiften hours and auables a
as possible,
ible, every chance of such grave compli person to read at
distuson of ferly to fifty cations as fataly caused the Chinese to boy sett American goods. Our lives with Jau further accentuates the awkwardness incidental to stalling off any portion of British tot citories from those islanders. A more direct insnit to a proud and highly sensi- tire nation could hardly be conceived, and i their resentment long ago but for political is vary certain that our allies would have shown considerations. Sach being the menacing posi. tion of affairs, the Badicals would have some
DIVIDEND at the Rate of TWENTY- FIVE for Cent, bring FIFTEEN DOLLARS per Share, on the Taid-Up Capital of the above Asociation, has beers declared payable, in Taels at Erbaure 73, at the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, or the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Shanghai, en and after this date, to charchokdors of Record, oa { yule. the 3 April, 1906.
By Order of the Board of Direstora, F. A. CUMMING,
Acting Bearstory
962 Shanghal, 19th April, 1946.
THE CHINESE ENOINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND oft of
Share free of tax for account Twelve monthe ending last February, has been declared by the Directors of the above Com pany. Coupon No. 6 is payable immediately at the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, Ava- TRALIA AND CHINA, and the Russo-CHINEES BANE, at Tientsin and Shanghai.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.. Agents. Hongkong, 1st May, 1906,
FOR SALE
FOR SALE, on TO LET.
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As a halstono molts in water it gives off a larga bubblo of rir, evidently enulmod under great pressure.
While the transmutation of elements at will is still a dream, the alkali moto's hare given J. J. Thomson a suggestion of cartrol of the
archange. Emission from these metals in light has boon long know and be has now proven that they give off slow elect rous, or Bota rays, aven in darkness, and that the process is greatly fluenced by light, heat and chemies! forces. These act as detonators, splitting up atoms which hard become unstable. This atomic breaking up is thought to be going on in all matter, with the setting free of enormous energy and it is esler'alc 1 that if the action extends throughout the earth, the emission by every atom of an electron once in a thousand
HE WANCHAY PROPERTY of GEO. TENWICK & Co. LTD. Engineers and Shipbuilders Comprising portions of Marine Lots Nos. 31 and 36; approximate area 43,000 square fant,
Or, & portion of Marice Lot at North Point, 20 feet depth of water at Wharf; enitable for godowns, Stc.
For further particulars apply to the Company. Hongkong, 25th April, 1905, LIAN
FOR SALE OR TO LET.
AT THE PEAK.
million years would accopot for the earth's iternal heat. The stomic modification may explain the "fatiga" of platinum and other substances after long incandescence.
The degree to which solids slowly intermix one of the recent surprising discoveries. A New Zealand teacher weations the dark psiches which appar opposite the stool winding steras ou the inside of silver watch cases ferty or fifty years old, tests showing that these patches are iron, which has vapourized, dissolved in the silver, and diffused into the solid metal. Still more remarkable is an instance of the posetra- tion of carbon into porcelain. Fresh pemoil works are easily removed from an old porcelain writing tablet, but some ustes written forty Fearengu havo sauk into the tablet toa consider N ELEVEN-ROOMED HOUSE, whhable depth and cannot be erased.
Dressing, Drying and Bathrooms; dis- tant thirtoon minutes by chair from the Tram; fitted with superior baths and with bot and cold water, large Kilchon; Laundry and Servants' Quarters. Can be used as one dwell
For Fartiolars and Terms, apply to-
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. [571 Hongkong, luth March, 1905,
(MITSU BISHI CO.) VOAL DEPARTMENTng or divided into two.
MARUNO-UCHI TOKIO. --
Cable AddraHS, * IWASAKI," which applies to all Brauch Offices.
Al, ABC M Ed., Western Union Codes used. All Letters Addressed:
MANAGER MISE BISHT Co.,
with
T
of place aucier. BRANCH OFFICES:
NAGASAKI MOJI. KOBE, KARATSU, SHANGHAL HONGKONG AND
BANKOW.
AGENCIES:-
YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA, Esq. CHINKIANG: Mess. GraKING & Col MANILA: Messrs. ALACONDKAY & Co. SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Oshi, Shinnew, Namazuta and Kami-Yemada Collierior, and also Hojo Colliery, which will shortly be ready to produce on a large scale the best Buzen Cool.
The Head and Branch OBoos and the Agen. eies of the Company will resive any order for Coals proceed from the shore Callicrion.
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T. MATSUKI, Manger, Hongkong, No. 2, Pedder Street.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
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CAINB ROAD. Hongkong, 20th September 1905.
FIRST-CLASS BOARD & RESIDENCE AT
"BRAESIDE.;
LARGE AND COMMODIOUS RESIDENCE shading in its own grounds, with Tennis Courts, Good Dining and Reception Rooms, Large Airy and Woll Furnishel Bedrooms, every home comfort, Fias View of the Harbour; Terma moderate Apply to Mrs. F. W. WATTS,
Braeside,* 20, Macdonnell Road Date of "Tang Yuen."!
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Hongkong, 27th June, 1905.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
NE LARGE FRONT BEDROOM with
Board for one or two Gentlemen:
Apply at-
No. 2, KNUTSFORD TERRACE.
Kowloon,
[701 Hongkong, 23rd March, 1906.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING.
"DAILY PRESS OFFICE.
The only office in China having European taught workmen Equal to Home
work.
excuse for setoing the exclusion of Asiatic Government had equal exents for nou-inter- inmigrants from "Greater Britain; the late ference, their conviction being that there could bo no surer way of producing Imperial disruption, Sir H. Campbell Bannerman bad better remember that South Africa is no more inclined to tolerate meddlesomeness in domestic affairs than Canada or Australasia.-Globe,
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THE FLOOD OF FICTION,
It is said that the public is showing signs of revolt against the poor quality of the serials published in some of the
The pro newspapers. at conditions of this indus ry certainly are sach as to favour, and almost to necessitata, the production of bad work. Apart from the fact. well known in the trade," that in some estas the stories are written, by order, to realise the posters, there is the impos sub ensideration that the writers depend for their prosperity not on the quality of their work, but on the quantity of their output. It may sound incredible, but it is literally true, that there are serialists who tarn oat a million words—the number of words, that is to say, contained in tes or twelve novels - the course of a year. Dumas himself, with all his ghosts" to help him, did not achieve as mach as that; and it is obvious that authors go prolific can have no time either to observe life or to reflect about it. Even if they begin with certain freshness, as some of them have done, their work soon becomes mechanio; and if it
true that the public is at last beginning to discover that foot, then the public is sincerely to be congratulated.
In a simpla German method for copying auscripts or printed matter, the object is glaced face upward on a table and a mirror is arranged above it at an angle of 4. The redaction is focused in the usul way. A smooth surface bromide or negative paper is need instead of a glass plate and the pieture THE SUPPRESSION OF “HUCKLE- shows white letters on a dark background. With proper exposure and development a posi tive print is unnecessary, the characters being a legible as black on white.
BERRY FINN."
From Amorica comes the news that the com. mittes of the Brooklyn Public Library
have Tom Sawyer
and The extremely sensitive galvanometer devised forbidden the issue of short time ago by Herr Einthoren, a German Huckleberry Finn" to all roaders under fifteen electrician, consists of a silvered quartz fibre rears of age. They are rather looks about boys stretched between the pules of a strong electro than books for bars, so that the grievance may be mora sentimental than practical; but it would magnet, the passage of the faintest current moving this fibre in the direction of the lines of be interesting to know what objections the dom - the magnetic field. The moveonat can be mitten hat in their mind when they issued their tut. Probably they think that the works in messaged directly by a microscope or recorded by photography. The new instrument will question depict the natural savage boy in too IRON MERCHANTS.
measure the willionth of an ampere, and attractive colours, and argue that though s saggasted use is for studying the electric natural Tom Sawyer may pase in the remoter parts of the Mississippi valley, they have a pre Muscular con- rents of the hauan nerves. currents SINGON & CO.,
tractions
for boys who deliberately imitate Tom Sawyer la of the heart had been already shown to Brooklyn. Whether they attribute to such boys, Metal fron, Steel,
and Hardware
the electric resistance of this organ. It is Merchants. Wholesale Bud Retail Vary
formed on such a model, í
those characteristics now claimed that electric waves weresponding Ironmongere. Pig Iron and Foundry. to the beating of the heart have been phote their city which ouod caused a man to say of it
Coke Importers, General Store.
keepers and Commission Agents graphed, the electric phenomens continually that if l-owned Brooklyn ant Avernus he would 95 & 37. Hing Loong Street altering and it is predictel that we may be able live in Avernus and sell Brockigu, does not appear. Possibly there is something on that (1st Strut West of Central to record the state of a person's health or the branch of the subject in the letter which Murk Market.) Telephone No.515. phases of hysteria or other very as borders. Twain has addressed to the committee, but which to plot the wailing and frotfulness of a poovich the committee have, up to the present, modestly obild. PHOTOGRAPHER
withheld from publiestion. -Daily Graphic.
M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ÅRTIST.
Bromide and Ceayon Enlargements and also eclouring Photos and relief Photos Views of Chim and Manila Work done for Amateurs No. 8A, Queon':
Road Control.
PRINTING.
DAILY FRESS" OFFICE Proofs read by Englishmen.
STOREKEEPERS
KWONG SANG & ĐO
Shipchandlers Sailmakers, Provisioners, Coal Merchants, Hardware, Engineers Toole, Metal, Live and Steel Merobants 57 58 & 59, Couausgest Road, New
Prava Central.
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Magnetized places-ots attracting iron like the lodestone are often notiend in volcanic
LONDON HOTEL MYSTERY.
rocks. They have been ascribed by Folgheraiter to Bgataing, but be know of no magnetized
At a coroner's inquiry last month into the rocks that had been tested before the lightning death of an American bady at Laffou's Hotel, truck. An instance Las now been described Gillingham-street, Pimlico. Mrs. Gertrude Two investigators had been testing rocks near Wood, wife of an American speculator." Mount Etna, when during a September night, lightning fused a telephone wire from which sitirely identified some of the clothing worn an eninanlated earth wire fan along a basaltic Laura a. Cushing, her sis er, and the wife of a by the dead woman as having belonged to Mia wall which had previously showa scarcely 2 millionaire, firing at Boston, Massachu-tts trace of magnetism. Next morning the stones and having a villa at Pau.
of the wall were strongly magnetic fer fre Mr. Edward All, Mra. Wood's solicitor, inches on both sides of the wire, the polarity not being satisfied with the jury's verdic, sabled indiating that the current passed upward.
to ali tou. Continentit cities in Europe waste to be known, with the Cushing was
For raising susken vessels, also for operating Beating docks, Pierre Harzy, a Frenchman, proposes using aslium carbide in ons placed in the vessel in attached cats. Electrically exploded caps would break open the cans, wet- ting the carbide, and generating agreat volume of acetylens to force out the watɔr
of
Mrs Cut the following mysterious letter, without data or address, has appeared in the New York Herald (Continental Edition):--
**Imagine my dismay this morning when I in the Herald that I had been the subject a coron-r's inquest in London. As our lored Mark Twain once remarked under similar circumstaneer, the story is slightly HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com- exaggerated". At present I am seriously plexion. Mrs. Elon's Creme Carmant, Lait thinking of insuring my life against the perils Charmant and Special Shiu Toal and Poudre of cabs and automobiles in the Paris streets.. Charmant will enable you to do it. Her but really no accident has claimed me yet. I Specialities for the Skin are the study of a wish to add that I have not been in England Lifetime. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents since lost August-Yours sincerely, Laura A.
781 Cashing PS-London papers, please note."
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APENTA
NATURAL APERIENT WATER.
Boilled at the Springa, Budapest, Hungary.
For continuous use by the Gouly, the Constipated, and the Obose.
GOLD MEDAL,
St. Louis, 1904.
DOSE:- A Wineglassful in the morning before Breakfast.
827-2
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