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INTIMATIONS
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD..
ESTABLISHED 1875,
BABY GRANDS
BY
RACHELS,
PLEYEL,
KEMMLER
AND
BOSENKRANZ
PRICES 20M $750.
FOR LIGHTNESS OF TOUCH,
QUALITY OF ΤΟΝΕ, AND' DURABILITY, THESE PIANOS ARE UNRIVALLED.
A GUARANTEE FOR
PERIOD
A TEST OF TWO YEARS GITEN WITH EACH INSTRE- MENT. INSPECTION INVITED.
SOLE AGENTS; ~
A. MOUTRIE & CO. LTD.,
York Building, Chater Road.
Hongkong, 30th July, 1996.
DR. M. H. CHAUN,
138-2
HE latest Method of the AMERICAN THE
· SYSTEM of DENTISTRY,
33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Hongkong, 17th April, 1907.
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No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET
TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation Free, Hongkong, 21st September, 1805
COLD STORAGE.
1540
THE HONGKONG IO COMPANY, LTD.,
TR00,000 Cubot Gold Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores will be. Open at 10 AM, and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday -excepted, to roosive and deliver, perishable goods.
WM. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 18th November, 1961 47
NEW CARTRIDGES.
Y Popular English Manufacturoca. In B Bores and Bines
SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED SHOT From No. 10 to 889G...st $6, $7 and *$7.50 per 100 SPORTING REQUISITES And AIR GUNE in Variety.
Inspection Invited.
WM. SCHMIDT & CO. Hongkong, 26th October, 1906. L771 NIGHT STEAMER TO CANTON.
S.S. SAN CHEUNG. Now Twin Scraw Steamer, Capt. J. MCGINTY, Leaves Hongkong for Canton at 9 P.M. on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY.
Leaves Canton for Hongkong at 6.30 P.M.ou TUESDAY, THURSDAY & BATURDAY.
Fare 1st Class Meals
ALSO
3 single passage Si each..
SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO MACAO on every SUNDAY Leaving Hongkong at 8 AM, Returning from Macao at 6.30 PM. Fare 1st Clans $1.50 single passage
40
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80
Meals $1 each. · Servants' passages must te paid for,
CHEUNG ON STEAMBOAT CO., LD.,
No. 292, Des Voeux Road Central. Hongkong, 19th September. 1907. 1527
TO LET
TO LET.
HATHERLEIGH, CONDITIT ROAD.
No. 1 RIPON TERRACE BONKAM ROA
OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK BUILDING.
GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST.
A HOUSE in CLIFTON & LEDENS, Conduit. itlond.
FLATS in MORSTON TEREAUE
Apply Lo
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AGENCY CO, LTD. Wangkong, 2nd September, 1907,
TO LET
IBABOLATE POSSESSION.
1969.
ODOWNR Nos. 95, 96, 97 and 190, Prig4,
East
Apply to CHATER & MODY,
odg, 20th June: 1907;
TO BE LET
Victoria Buildings.
P1080
Apply fo
S from the 1st August
MORBISON HILL.
MENES, JARDINE MATHESON
& CO. LTD.
Hongkong, Ist July, 10077
B
TO LET
TO LET
TO BE LET OR SOLD.
WITH POSSESSION FROM 1ST JUNE—
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30ra, 1907.
IN WANCHAL ROAD, ODOWN, built of brick, with tiled roof, just thoroughly repaired, about 4000 square feet space, concrete i ocing. Suitable for storage of any kind of merchandise.
Apply to-
"K" Care of "Dally Press" Office. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1907.
870
TOʻLET...
9 ROOM HOUSE, with Tenuis Lawn and out-bousee. Good view of the harbour, 18, Macdonnell Road. Apply to--
DR. HO KAI Borrister-at-Law,
Dos Vour Road, Hongkong, 28th September. 1907:
TO LET.
1580
66 CITONHEVED": 35, Robinson Road, -
No. 52, CAINE ROAD.
Nos. 27, 29, 31 and 38, SEYMOUR ROAD.
Apply to-
SAM WANG.CO., LTD.,
81, Quson's Hond Central, Hongkong, 22nd July, 1907. {103
TO LET.
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE
KOWLOON. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1907, 92
TO LET FURNISHED.
66 LEMISH" No. 101, The Peak, from let October next. Apply to- Messee, HASTINGS & HASTINGS,
Solicitors; 38, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong. Hongkong, 4th September, 1907. 1445 TO LET.
A ROOMS with Bath Room attached, and suit of 3 LARGE and ONE SMALL Verandah ali round, on the First Floor in College Chambers, No. 31, Wyndham Street, facing "Clonesly". Can have the use of a Kitchen, can be rented singly or the whole.
GROUND FLOOR, of No. 4. Des Tour Rond including a Strong Room and servante' quarter.
ROOMS on Sound Floor of Vicro BUILDING, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, enit able for Offices.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co. LTD. Hongkong, 24th May, 1907.
821
-TO-LET.
ARGE AND SPACIOUS GODOWNS
EAST, formerly in the occupation of the Admiralty, Apply to
HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 2nd September. 1907. 809
66
TO LET.
HOPS and FLATS in Dey Your Road.
Central.
No. 6, CAMERON TERRACE, Kowloon. No. 14, SALISBURY AVENUE, Kowloon.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LD.,
Hongkong, 15th July, 1907,
LET.
1155
LENWOOD" CAINE ROAD; emitable
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY
SPONGY CHROMIUM—A FLAME LEVEL IRON SMELTING BY 'WATER-ALL ANIMALS WAR-BLOODEN —— JUNTER WITHOUT NOONS SCREW RIFLE-RALL—GAS GENE- HATED HY ELECTRIC LEAKS-ELECTRIC SMOKE ABATING SOME TEMPERATURES,
Chromium in a rebiarkable now spongy form has been produced by Binet de Jassonsiz by heating cast ohromium containing fifteen per cent of boron in an electric fur 100 with s mase of copper. The ingot shows the white spongy metal ia the midst of the copper. When the latter is diss lved out, the dried residue is a brilliant spongy mass of nearly pare chro miam in the form of interlacad filam pits crystallites groapad like snow takes or mioss leaves. The small amount of boron prosent may be driven off by beating The spongy cura main is attacked more easily than the or. linary metal, thus not oxidza in air bat in lane barus like tinder, glows very brightly in orggen, and is attacked by hydrochloric and sulphuric acid but not by nitric acil,
by a new optical pyrometer; Porcelain furnace, 2498 dag. F.; glue furnace, 2552 deg. opoo dog.; incandescent lamp, 7410 deg.; the sun, hearth steel, 2795 deg.; melted platinum, 3236 13712 deg.
SHARE REPORT.
Mesars. Erich Georg & Co. any in their weekly share report, dated September 28th Very tile business has been done during the week under review, and the market closee quiet for most stocks. The sterling demand rate of exchange on London closes at 24, 2-11/16d. ; while London is quoted 31 d., and Consols £82-7/16. rates on Shanghai are unabanged, Barsilver in
BANK SHARES Nothing has been done in Hongkong and Shanghais, which remain on offer at $5474 for o'd shares and $505 for new shares, London quotes €77. 10s. Ud. ad £60. 10s. 04, respectively; Nationals are unchanged. MARINE INSURANCE SHARES-A smal! lot of North Chicas sold at Tls. 75. Unious quiet but steady als 3709—–—– Other stocks under this heading are unchanged and without ¦ fransactiona
FIRE INSURANCE SHARES. -No business has been reported and rates aro ucaltered. Macaca remain on offer at $78 Indo-Chinas SHIPPING SHABRA.--Hongkṛng, Canton and
are quiet again as 870 (Sil pref, and $20 def.), while Shanghai quotes sellers at T. 54; the London rates are unchanged, viz., £5. 10%. far preferance and £2, 58. Od, for deferred shares. China and Mabiles can still be placed at $15. ybile Douglasen sold to day at $41 Star Ferries are in demand at $20 for old and $10 for now abares. Shell Transports can be pl cod to a small extent at it, at which rate there are sellers in Londos. Union Waterbɔata are procurable at $12.
and without
REFINERIES-Vachanged
business.
MINING BHARES.--Charbonnages show no change. Rubs are wanted at 581, bat nes hold
Among the curious exp rments that may be performed with the dams tabe of Ulrich Bebu. which was exhibited at the last soirvie of the London Royal Society, is that, of obtaining a level by means of two gas-jats. The tube, which is of tin about two insbes in diameter - and a yard long, has its eads corket, and a large hole is cut in the side near each end. Gas is led through one cork and igcitel at the bolag. With the flames so'ndjusted that laminor tip appears ou sach with the tubs horizontal, & variation from level of an eighth of an inch-for higher rates, Chius Engineering and corresponding to a difference in pressure of two ten millionths of an atmosphere-is shown.
A novel method of irou-making is anggested by A. Hiorth as a prom'sing industry for Norway. The Norwegian iron ore now unsaleable low grade ore can be reduced by exported, but experiment proves that even the
the impure graphite of the country in electric farasces operated by water-power, the-product baisg Bae pig iron at low cost.
Fanrick, as
Mining Company's shares are in fair demand at Tl. 15), bas holders demand better termM.
DOCKS, WHARVES, GoDowns, &d-Rong kong and Whampoa Dooks sold in small lots at £103, $102, $101, and 100, and more shares can be placed at the lower rate. well as Now Amey Docks are unchanged.
a few shares can be had on same forms. Shanghai Dooks have sellors at Tls. 77. Hong- koug and Kowloon Wharves. sold at $07), and Shanghai and Hongkow Wharres weakened in the north, closing with buyers at Tis. 220.
LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.A for kong Hotels have improved to buyers at $100, Humphreys sold at 10 closing firm. Hong- Hongkong Lands can be placed at $95 Other stocks under this heading are unchanged.
To speak of warm-blooded and cold-bloodest animals is now known to be both unscientie and inexact and Prof. E. L. Trouessart, the French naturalist, points out that the classes 6 Internationale Tis, 59, Laon Kang COTTON MILLS.-Shanghai quotes: Ewos recognized by modern physiologlats are "hom
Mows -Tls. 9), and Seychees T. 2871. therms"
and poecilotherms," or animals of Hongkong Cottons have sellers at $10. constant and those of variable temperature. VoSUNDRY MANUFACTURING COMPANIES,— Buimals are without host, all being appreciably Alhambras are not quotable at present, at a warmer than the usual temperature of the meeting bold in Manila rome time ago it was medium in which they live. In tying insects the capital to P. 30,000, by writing down the sheres proposed and carried to reduce the present share excess of heat may ranch 7 deg, to 11 deg. Ffrom Pa. 200 to Pa. 100 each; it was further while marine invertebrates are not more than a
decided to ingress ibe capital to Pa. 90,000 by. the issue of 900 shares of Ps 100 asb, sama to few tenths of a degras warmer than the sur rounding sea, but in all poecilotherm the
rank equal to the old shares and to be issued on 31st October, 1997, present shareholders to have body temperature rises or falls with that preference in applications. Hongkong Electries of the air or water. Among manusia y
gold and have further beyers at $14. Dairy body temperature varies with species from 98
Frems sold at $171 to $18, closing stendy at dog. to 102 deg. F., while in birds it is from 1917 bands and are wanted at 811. Other stocks under latter #gure; Green Island, Camente changed deg. to 11 deg. These temperatures. romain this boading ar angbanged. Constant, no matter how great are the changes in the surrounding medium, and an important difference between the creatures once called warm-blooded and cold-blooded, is that the homeotherms bave an automatic heat-regulating mechanism. This acts through vasomotor nerves, which control the circulation., Shiver- ing is a convulsive movement of the muscles that warms the body, and cooling off is affected by increased evaporation through the sweat gland, as in man, oxthrough accelerated respira tion, as in dogs and birds.
Gfor a Boarding house or Club, Con- Astronomical event tast, socording to a French Aaapparently moonless Jupiter is the cariona
..
tsining 26 Rooms,
BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Offices and Dwelling Rooms,
No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor, (over Caldbeck MacGregor). OFFICES in Queen's Road Central BELILI08 TERRACE HOUSES, ROBINSON ROAD.
"THE EYRIE" Peak (Furnished) for 3 Months from Ist September, 1907. Chesp Rental
No. 6, DES VEUX VILLAS (PEAK), * No. 2, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. No. 55, ELGIN STREET (Corner Hons).&
“Apply-to-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 25th September, 1907. [102
TO LET.
astronomer, may be seen from favourable points on the evening of October 3rd. Tu ordinary taiascopes four satellites are usually visible, but for ten minutas on the evening named all wil vanish, three being behind the planet and one ju front. Only Eastern observers like those in Asia and Australia-ca's witness this rare. phenomenon.
MISCELLANEOUS-China-Borneos have been
done at rates ranging between 89,3% and 39.00, closing with bagers at 894. Now Peak Tramways sold at $2, cloring with further buyers at $1.80. Langkats have buyers in the north at The 331 Laundries sold and have sellers at $6. Other stocke under this heading have not boen dealt in and are unchanged.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
The N.Y.K. str. Nikka Maru. (Australian Line) left Manile for this port on the 48th Espt, and is expected here to-day s.m.
The I.G.M. str. Borneo left Sandakan, on the 24th inst, and may be expected here to day am. The HA. L. str. Thenanig left Shanghai on 28 h Sept., and may be expected here to morrow, at vann,
The P. & O. str. Dihi left Bingapore for this port on the 28th inst. at 8 am, with the outward English Mails, and is due hore on the Frd October at about 6 a.m.
The IG.M. str. Roon carrying the German Mails with dates from Berlin of the 10th inst.. bas left Colombe on Saturday, the 28th inst A., and may be expected, here on or about Tuesday, the 8th of October.
The N.Y.K. str. Minnesofa arrived at Yoko.
The new bullet of Signor Cai-Rigotti bashama on the 28th Sept. at 7 m., will leave screw-shaped point, which increases rotation. the 3rd October, and may be expected here en Kobo for Hongkong via usual ports of call on German tests have shown that this increases the the 11th October, range and gives a greater trajectory than that' of the ordinary rifle ball.
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Investigating a leakage of current from the negative cable of an electric tramway in
OND FLOOR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD Liverpool Dr. Bassett has found that the top
CENTRAL.
No. 38, UAINE ROAD, AUCTION ROOMS, No. 2, Zetland Street, Nos. 1 & 2, PAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloon,
Apply to
CONFORANGE, 1. DOE VOLL Foad. Hongkong, 20th August 1977.
TO LET.
OFFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
Apply
SECRETARY; A. S. Watson & Co., Limited Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907. [800
یست.
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YO. 4, HOLLYWOOD ROAD. Apply t
N°
ARRATOON 7, APCAR & Co,
45, Wyndham Strest. -Hongkong, 2nd March, 1907.
491
TO LET.
10: 2, MACDONNELL MAD.m
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of the wooden trough carrying the cable bal ben burned through and material had leaked in'. that had formed a bard alkaline crust on the wire. Hydrogen was given off on contact with water, suggesting the prosence of free sodium and potassium. A fluid alloy of these two metals was discovered in interior crevices, and analysis showed that the crust was two-thirds sadium and potassium hydroxides, the remainder mostly earthy matter, with some soluble alien about que per cent each of fres Bodiom It was conclude d fr olkali metals, förides, with the and mirad
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Electric air filtration is the idea English engineer, and is based on the discordlys that a body positively electrified by 100 solte or dare will become covered with wontein a single day in smoky atmosphere, while u ingatively charged body remaing clean, Enst ing a sheet of wire gauge in the intake fine of a ventilating system and electrifying it by connecting to a 20 voltsupply main, the gaurs extracted a large quantity of soot from the air.
High-temperrimes now play an important part in our daily work, and it is interesting to ACOMPRADORES DEPARTMENT,uote the following actual temperatures of
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992
66 TDBRIL " No. 1 GARDEN BOAD DO KOTLOON, Containing 8 Rooms and Garden Possession let Jung, 1907
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H. M. H. NEMAZEE. Hongkong, 29th May, 1907.
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