INTIMATIONS
MOUTRI E
& CO.. LTD..
PIANOFORTE
MUSIC WAREHOUSE.
SOLE AGENTS
FOR
AND
RACHEL, PLEVEL, ROSENKRANZ, KEMMLER, HOOFF & HOOFF, HOPKINSON: KOCH & KOR-
SELT.
PRICES FROM $140,
The Latest GRAMOPHONES & RECORDS always in stock.
SOLE AGRATA for the
GRAMOPHONE AND TYPEWRITER
Co., Lu.
8. MOUTRIE & CO, LD.,
York Building, Chater Road,
Hongkong, Bth April, 1907.
DEA
IRON MERCHANTS.
E. HING & Co,
38-1
EALERS in Iron, Steel, Metals, Hard. ware, Muniz's Metal, Steel Bailer and Ship Plates, Pig-Icon, Coke and General Merchants. No. 20, Wing Wa Street (Lane from 171, Queen's Road to 169, Dos Troux Road Central) Telephone No. 613,
Hongkong, 1st March, 1907.
INSURANCES
478
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN. SURANCE CO.
OF AIX LA-CHAPELLE
· 71HE Undorsigned, having been appoii ted AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE st Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897,
134
N
ORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN. TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBRs, 1905 £17,837,119.
1. AUTROKINED CAPITAL....£3,000,000 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL... 2,750,000 PAID-UP CAPITAL ................... 687,500 0 0 11. FIES FUNDS. 3,388,720 199
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, ore prepared to ACCEPT RISKS sgainst FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.. APARTS,
Hongkong, 27th April, 1907.
THE GLORUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THEN above Company, ars THE Undersigned, having been appo'n'ed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates
CARLOWITE & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906.
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HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
AUCTIONEER.
C. DE M. C. VIEIRA-RIBEIRO,
Auctioneer. Consignments solicited. Ascount Sales rendered and settlement ofeared promptly. No. 8A, Qnon's Road
Central, Hongkong.
BOOKBINDING.
"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.
The only office in China having Europeni
taught workmen Equal" to Home
work.
IRON MERCHAN19.
Hardwar
SINGON & CO.,
Tron,
Steel, Metal asd Merchants. Wholesale and Retail Ironmongers. Pig Iron and Foundry.
Coko Importers. General Stora
keepers and Commission Agents, 35 & 87, ing Loong Street,
(lat Street West of Contro
Market.) Telephone No.515,
PJOTOGRAPHER
M. MOMETA, JAPANISH ARTIST,
Bromide and Cragon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos, Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; Ho. Sa, Quvon's
Road Central,
Good Panor Views of Hongkong, recently taken, on sale.
PRINTING.
معية بنه
-DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,
Proofs read by Englishmen..
TYPEWRITERS.
F. A. V. ETBEIRO,
Typowriting Work Tudertaken, Cleared, Repaired, Overhauled. Charges moderate.
Tale of the Houghoug Typewriting Bureau) 8A, Queen's Road Contral
(First-floor).
COLD STORAGE.
THE HONɑKong Ien CoMPANY, LTD.,
There 2 10,060 Cabio Feet of Cold Storage available at FAST POINT. Btores will
be Open at 10 A.M. and 4 г.. daily, Sunday excopied, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
WM. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 18th November, 1901.
STORAGE.
FOR CO TIMER, &c.
-17
Portious of MARINE LOTS Nou. 31 & 36 ya PRAYA EAST. Approximate AREA 13,000 SQUARE FT. 399 YEARS' LEASE.
For Particulars, apply→
GEO. FENWICK & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 8th Jane, 1906,
(100
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 22ND, 1907.
A
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
BUILDING MATERIAL NEEDING INSULATION THE STRONGEST TIMBEG—LHORSE': ARTI- FICIAL · LEO-COMING OF AIR NAVIG TRON
to
{ baffles, the frayu compel the siy in dow over a relatively large surfags. The inlet has a skeleton drawor fitted with mastia scroon catch the larger particles, and the metal traye HALDNESS FROM BAD BEBATHING-AX contain a hyer of glycerins to arrest the or EFFECTIVE AM FILTER-THE MAGNET Iganisms, with a little powdered sulphite of sodium sprinkle over it to pravout their development,
EYE EUROBEYA NOVEL PORFACE
Electrolysis has been little investigated, bat now demands greater attention, as it appears that stray currents io damp soil may erlanger coulist, has used the msgual in 347 operations In 27 years De. J. Hirschberg, a Germin
O BE LET, a Portion of MARINE LOT / buildings as well as the pipes under the street, for removing particles from the eye. In the No. 285 it NORTH POINT, Suitable Experiments by a A. A. Kundson, a New York eight yours ending 193, le performs the For above Purpo20, EXTENSIVE WATER engineer, at loast go to show that the metal FRONT. DEEP WATER.
nmbedded in reinforced concreto is not as parvision is Mesas,
operatioal times, securing good nud permanent Also FOR SALE,
Ia nin of the 3 c the feetly protected against corrosion as has been bit of iron was removed from the ritraens, in supposed. The tests were made on blocks of 27 from the rotina; 22 were fresh cases, and 14 Portland camont sand concrete three years old were old. In 22 of the if cases the injured eye aud on blocks of Rosendale cement thirty days bad to be taken out, the iron pisces being large old, a piece of 2-inch wrought-iron pip, binger blood paisoning following the injury. In four ombedded in each blook to a depth of inches.
cases the mangout failed to remove the particles." Blocks kept thirty days in unobctrified sea- water remized in porfect condition, the iron
A new o'estrin farmaco, for determining the continuing quite bright. Exposed to an fasion points of refmotory substances, has been electric current in sea-water and is fresh water constructed at sasu by W. C. Herzen. It's b'ocks of the older concrete became badly crack.essantial part is a tube of iridium four-fifths of ød, were assily brokon, and the pipes were mucha inch thick and an inek and thraa-4ftis in corroded, und blocks of the newer omcrete diameter, and in this temperatures between showed cracks as early as the sixth day.
1,500 degrees and 2,000 degrees C-laing can be maintained for any desired length of time.
DAVID CORSAR & BON'S
295
MERCHANT NAVY NAVY BOILED
LONG FLAX
RELIANCE CROWN
TARPAULING
CANIAS
ARNHOLE, HARDENG & CO
Bola Arent."
DR. M. H. CHAUN,
TH THE latest Method of the AMERICAN
SYSTEM of DENTISTRY.
33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Dongkong, 17th April, 1907.
ON SALE,
505
THE FIFTY YEARS ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR 日臘英中年十五
FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1861 TO 31ST DECEMBER 1913, BEING FROM THIS IST YEAR OF THE 70TH CYCLE TO THE 50TH YEAR OF THA 76TH CYCLE, THAT IN THE 350 YEAR OF TUNG CAL TO THE 39TH YEAR OF KWONG SUI.
PRICE $2 CASH.
On Sale at the HONGKONG " Daily Press" OFFICE, or Agents in all the Porta of the Far East.
The Book will be sent by Registered Post (free) to any part of the World unrepressated by Agents on rept of Money Order.
Hongkong, 3rd October, 1906,
ON SALE.
A TABLE OF THE
1841
RATES OF EXCHANGE AT
· HONGKONG
For Demand Drafts on London on the day of or pracoding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximante Averages for 33 Years
FROM 1874 to 1906..
Price: 82 Cash. On sale at the PRESS" Once, or Local Booksellers.
Cunliffe,
The Yale trey of Western Australia, growing to a height of 10 feet and a dim ter of t 3 feet, yields the strongest timber known. Esto tests abowed an average tensile strength, of| 24,00 pounds to the square inch, equal to that of cast iron and some sp cimens resisted 17 tous to the square inch, equal to the tensile atrength of wrought iron.
Amputating a horse's log at the fetlock joint Prof. Ünriski, of the veterinary school at Buokarest. has replaced the last portion with a leather artificial leg that enables the animal to walk about and take erreiss.
A polyglot medical journal is agnounced from Berlin, ezoh article to be published in 6m English, Italian and Spanish. Several Ameri can medical men contribute to the first number.,
SHARE REPORT.
Masers, Erich Gong & Do. say in their weekly share report, dated July, 20th 1907:---- Busia has remained very quiet, and rates show hardly any changes of mportance. The sterling dated rate of exchange on London close at 2, while rates on Shinetai are Ths. 724 for a Bank TT, on! Tk 731 for a three days sight Private Bill. Barsilver in London quoted 31-7; 16 1, and Consols £341,16.
BANK SHARES.-Several lots old or new Rongkong and Shanghai Bank Shares sold at 8080 and $635, and mora sharos ara on offer at the higher Sgure; the now shares are obtainab'a a $522 (1st call paid) London quotes Nationals are unchanged. for old ex now, and £60 for now [ļai vall paid);
'man can now ascond into the air or send to and Macaus tutobed $chings are
offer
MARINE INSURANOR SHARES--Å ̈Í: Unions fetched $770, and more are wanted. Chian
Trades are unchanged. North Chinas Changer mre extraordinary than have yet sold at Ths. 731. Yangtezi ara frm at $18). come from human invention ace looked upon by Cantons sold and har faquiciat $170.
FIRR INSURANCE SHAR.-Hongkongs 'Maj. B: F. 8. Baden-Powell as possible resulted in a small way at 6330, at which rate abares soon to come from the flying-machine. Balloons, kites and flying machines are means by which
are on offer. Chiaas felehed 846, closing quiet.
SULPTING SHAREV-A fow H
Hongkong, closing with Instruments of investigation. Tas balloon it stay at $7), & salt at 372 for oad for
farther sollers al thai rete.
too cumbrona aud dolierte to be of wide app plamber has been reported. China and cation, yet it is useful as a solen lido observatory Manilas are study at $15, while Douglases And for reconnaissance in war. Great improze.o tian in demand at 31. 011 Star Ferries mant has resulted from sagies and propellers, ha ellers s $25 th now is sold at $11. Shell Transports gold at 42%. G), and havə The French Government made the first dirigible further buyers at 42a. 01; Lindon rite is 43). airship 25 years ago, and now it has one at least 33. Union Waterboste havo sollorg at $193. that seems a practical air vessel of war, Ju
REFINERIE-Without sales; they are on
•ab last quọt itious, Germany Count Zappelin has produced a mu--
MINING BABES.- Charbonnages unchanged. chine that beats all records in size and spend. Ragha wild at 36. China Engineering and At the other extreme in size are buy balloons Mining Company's shares can be placed at Tls. "Dattyarrying only Balf-recording instruments, and 158; the total output of the Compy's three these have ascended to 82,00 fist, nearly 16525015 tone of cal, and the sales during the minos for the work onded 29th ultima, amounted
miles
Kites also have proven us-ful to the same period tv 23,751 tons. meteorologist. Improved mdels, retained by
Доска,
WHARVES, AND Gobows &C.- wirge, lift instruments four miles, at $101 and $102. and have probable buyers at
Hongkong
and Whampea Dooks changed han is and, in large siz, have basu
agularly the higher rate. Ge. Fenricks are offering at introduced into military service. Men 9174, and now Amoy Dicks at $117. Shanghai were first raised from the ground of Docks are firm at Tiɛ. 75, Hongkong and Kow- A'derabot in 1895, while in late experiment and Hongkow Wharves are quoted Tls 224 ja log Wharves are for sale at $78, Shanghai in height of 3,000 feet has been reached, the
the north, kite rider virtually disappearing from viow. The flying machine was an impossibility not long ago, but within two or three years bas been so developed that experimsators have sustained thermalvas in air for half an hour at time. Little remains to do ore man will have daequered the air.
The Planeer Exparis tartum cada,
Russell & Co.
10 & 12, Place de la Bourse, PARIS ECURITIES issed by
European Gov'ts and Municipalities offering DESCRIPTIVE
WRITE FOR prospectsof immensereturus. PAMPHLETS
To be purchased for cash or on the **Times" system of monthly payments.
DIY: EFFE, RUSSELL & CO. being the oldest-estab bished firm of dealers in Premium Bonds in the world, wife advantages absolutely no- Jobtainable elsewhere. Bonds guaranteed. exceptional factities for payment. Nurnber hekedafter everyDrawing. Results of Draw ings to English. Holders of drawn Bonds ad- jvised at me. Prizes collected Irré of charge. Bonds purchaset "at sight."Loans granted Tone Pescanseman Bonds. Services continue until Cat Pawel dir wwen. All times as tongue emisjgdontist
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WITH GRIMAULT & C03
SARSAPARILLA
A TRUE BLOOD PURITIES
GAIKAULYS
SANSAPARILLA
The original ear- saparilla, recom- mended for the last 40 years for lymphatic disease, eroptions, bails, and all disorders of the skin
GRIMAULT & C 8, rue Filim,
PARIS
now
LANDS, HOTEL And Boigoryus. — Ham- phreys sold and remain on offer at 8 02: Shanghai Lands are gatal Tis. 1. Other stooks under this healing a changed and with-
out frausactions,
CTTON MILLS-Unchanged.
SOXURY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A few China Light al Powers sold at $ cam all and more ure wanted. Bell's Asbestos sold and are wanted at 87 od. A fow Dairy Farms fe ched $5 and more share can be pag., Green Island Cements sold at $17 and have sellars at $161, Other under this beading are unchanged and without Fales,
Blocks
nt
For his curious theory that baldness is due to lack of upper cheat breathing, Dr. Delos M. Parker, of the Detroit College of Medicine, claims verification by thousanda of observations during ay years. No slotim of copin bakiness was found who breathed proparly $9 to 89.10, closing with buyers at 89). Old
MISCELLANEOUS.-China-Borasos sold The lungs being imperfectly filled and emptiot Tramways are wanted at $103, but the new, it is supposed that residual air is left in the issue is on offer at 313 Logkata have im. "pper passages and develops a soluble poison.proved in the north to T. 295. Watkins can A. S. Watsons sold buyers be placed at 821 This poison spacially affects the scalp, whore the at $11. Wm. Powells sold at 84 Other akin is practically bloodless and therefors of stocks under this heading are unchanged and low vitality. Persistent ratura to correct | without transaction. breathing has been followed by disappearance of
dandruff in one week and beginning of a new growth of koiria sis wooks, nad a fresh eyvaring has been developed on a boid that had been bald twenty years.
The Warwick air purifier, a Day device for sterilizing the atmosphere, has been tried with such succees in the refrigerating room of an English browary that 995 par cont. of the or ganizas in the outside air ware Eltered out. Only a few moulds passed, all yeasts and baataria being removed. The apparatus tested was about four feet high and thrae fest square ja vsction, and 20,000 cubic fuat of air per hour was passed though its trays. The trays—ulavən in camberare mota, a wile as the br containing them, but not so loop. The first tray is pushed to the back, leaving a small space in front, leading to the tray blow, the next 19 placed formeril, laving the vacnat space of, the back, suit so on through the serius. A oling s
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The
The Milk Foods closely approximate la cémposition to, með are ás sesy of digestion as Maternal
They provide perfect the for the formation of fire flesh aral streng bang,
The Milk Fonds art acutely free from my maxious term, and here are lar superlar fa cow's mué es
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No diarrhea, digestive or stomach troubles seed de Teared from the use of the "Allenburys" Foods
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PURCH LAKES WILL HAVE THE OPTION O CHANGING FOR OLIVER'S WITHIN NINE MONTHS-
When full amount paid for Scood Haal Michins will ba dahastad from Price of Now Machine.
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NEW
WATSON'S
TRABE MARK
1, PRINCE'S BUILDING.
FOR
LABEL
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QUALITY
WHISKY
TRADE MARK
WATSON'S Scotch Whisky
VERY OLD LIQUEUR
Awatromb
LIMITED.
HONGKONG CHINA & MANILA.
ESTABLISHED ·
A.D. 1841.
IN BOLIVI
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-E LITHOGRAPHED IN KLACK. I ALSO SELINCU
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Benger's Food, prepared with fresh new milk, is all food.
It is distinguished from others by the case with which it can be digested and absorbed. It can be served' prepared to suit the exact physical condition of the person for whom it it intended.
Beuger's Food is for infants, invalids, and all whose digestive powers have become weakened through illness or advancing age. Banger's Food is sold in fius by Chemists, tic, everywhere.
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