Page
S.
INTIMATIONS
INSURANCES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 1907.
MOUTRIE THE GLORUS INSURANCE COMPANY
& CO.. LTD.
THE ORCHESTRELLE Co.'sTM
NEW MODEL AERIOLA”
PIANO
PLAYERS
RETURNED AFTER A FEW MONTHS
ON HIRE
REDUCED
TO $350.
A MARVEL or MECHANICAL GENIUS AND THE MOST PERFECT INSTRU-
MENT ON THE MARKET.
OF HAMBURG.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed. THE
AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906.
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TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN- NORTHERNURANCE COMPANIA TOTAL FUNDS AT Bler Dom, 1995
€17,887,119.
I AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 SUBSCRIEND CAPITAL... 2,750,000
PAID-CP CAPITAL NUM 687,800 00
3,398,720 18: 8
SCIENTIFIC
ENTHIC MISCELLANY...
MEASURING CHILDEEN ·FOR EDUCATION ----
AIR-ELECTRIFIED PLANT ROOTS
LAND
~SHARE REPORT;
akare report dated 7th December 1902- Messrs Erich Georg & Co. say in their weekly Basiness during the wook under review has OLD VAT been but imal, Bank shares excepted, and
THORNE'S
· SQUEEZED BY TIDES—OUR COMMON PEYEES —RIGH LITE÷AMONG ANTS ---- TIME FOR THE BLIND-WOOD-SILE JOB WALL rete do not show say, material change, the tone EGGS SUPPLIED BY THE SEA,
to be
for
1970
PEB
$14
THIE WAT WAS STARTED BY THE LATE ROBENT,TKÜRME
•OF GRECHÈCH ANG HAS DERA SOLD AS N'A SINCE IBS!
Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISES specially considered as abnormal, The bril, and more shares could be placed at 3730. ChSCOTCH WHISKY.
from
for most stooks being fairly steady. The sterling demand rate of exchange on London The scientific training of children-adapting closes at Ix. 114, while rates en Shanghal are education, memfal and physical, to the individual the same as reported last. Barailver in London is a reform that is becoming more and more is noted 26-7/168, and Consols £33-7/8 16 urgently needed. A step in the right direction report - much better feeling ough the Bank ex intefest. Telegraphic advices from London and-money-is has been made by Prof, Alfred Blast, of the decidedly easier at home, for, a paychological laboratory at the Sorbonne, Paris. Frate of discount remains 7 By a great number of measurements-indad-rate of discount has been reduced to $7 per cent. per cent, the market
ing height, weight, width of shoulders, memory, have been done to a fair extant at $860 to $665 BANK SHARES.- -Hongkong and Shanghais attention, suggestibility, the color senso, head for old, and $555 for now shares, and the market development, strength of the hand, elo,-tables | hus now advanced to buyers at 8580 and $670 have been prepared showing the average respectively old and 13) for now shares. the London rates baring improved II, FI FUNDS,..................
development for each age, and children differ- Nationals are
to The Undertigued, AGENTS for the above ing much from the average
unchanged. MARINE INDÚKANÓS SHARES Unionasold against FIRE at Current Eater,
Traders continas in request at 890, North Chinas have been done in the north at Tin 89, so wa follow this quotation. Tanglezes are quiet at $150 cum new insan; the now. Ikane (4,000 shares of 3100 each, of which 260 paid up. together with a premis of 910 per share, or $100 la all) was payable in Shanghai on 30th ultimo. Cantons are on offer at $145. bean done at 53224. Chinas sold at $59 to $90, FIRE INSURANCE SHARES-Hongéngs lave and shares can be placed now at $91.
IPPING SHARES-Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat changed hands at 350, clos ing with boyers; we hear that the passenger traffle during the last few days (in connection with the Chinens Procession of 5th to 7th instant) has resulted in very good earnings to the Company, Indo-Chinesa are nominal at last rates, while in the north the rate has improved to Tls. 51 buyers for the settlements. China and Manilas, and Douglases are unchanged. Star Forries, old, have buyers at $21; the new isane sold at $11, and more shares are waned. Union Waterboata remain on offer at $11, but
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents, Hongkong, 27th April, 1907,
1148
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- BURANCE 00. OF AIX LA-CHAPELLE.
A WRITTEN GUARANTEE GIVEN TAGENTS for the above companie Lare having been appointed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
WITH EACH INSTRUMENT,
SOLE AGENTI
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.,
York Building, Chator Ron.
Hongkong, 18th November, 1907. -88-1
THE
COLD STORAGE.
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTE, Lave now 40,000. Cubio Feat of Gold Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 AM, and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
WM. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 18th November, 1901 47
STORAGE,
FOR COAL, TIMBEL, &c.
NO BE LET, a Portion of MARINE LOT
THE LE NORTH POINT, Suitable
for above Purpose. EXTENSIVE WATER FRONT. DEEP WATER
Also FOR SALE,
Portions of MARINE LOTS Nos: 81 & 36 Approximate AREA
on PRAYA EAST.
43,000 SQUARE FT. 299 YEARS' LEASE.
For Particulars, apply-
GED. FENWICK & Co., LTD. Bogkong, Sth June, 1900.
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TITSU
BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS,
NAGASAKI.
CODE WORD: “DOCK”
- A., A,B,C,, and Engineering Code Bred
NEW DOCK NOW OPEN,
Width of Entrance on Bottom... 88
at Current Bates.
REUTER, BROOKELMANN & CO.
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897, M. 114
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING.
"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,
The only office in China haring European taught workmen Equal to Home
work
IRON MERCHANTA
SINGON & CO., ̈
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lant child is saparated from the dull one, the пертон and emotional the calm and calculating. A begins ing in
the formation of classes of the sbnormal children has been made, and it is hoped that the work will continue until all pupils in the land are classified and taught according to capacity, and special requirements. In the new Swiss system of electroculture described by Prof. Barde, two series of metallic conductors traverse the plant roots at a depth of two feet in soil, each series forming an electrode, one of which is connected to a sixty foot lightning rod terminating in copper peinte, while the other is attached to a metal plate in the ground. Tested two seasons on phylloxera infested vines, the atmospheric slootricity destroyed all insects, while the vines showed extraordinary growth.
Many wolls near tidal waters fucinate with the tides. As some cannot be connected with the ses, it is now believed that food tide force up the well water by compression of the land under the increased weight of the ocean.
at 10 buyers might be found. Shells acid at 428, to 438., olozing with buyers at 43s; in Lon- don the rate is 44s. 6d. allerk
REFINERIES-China Sugars are on offer, at $100, while Luzons can be placed at $10.
share on the now shares (I now for 2 old) falls due on 30th instant. Shanghai and Hoogłow Warves have dropped in the gerth to The 197 at which figure bayers prevail.
-MINING SHARES-Charbonnages have ad- viuend to buyers at $500. Roubs bare improved Defining a long fever as one having a few and Mining Co.'s shares are enquired after at to small buyers at $8; Chinese Engineering perature above 39 degree continuously for at The, 151, without leading to business. Tros, Steel Merd sad Hardware loant two weeks, Dr. R. C Cabot fads only and Whampoa Dooke, although the
Docks WH
OWN &c-Hongkong GopowNB TARVES Merchante. Wholsale and Retail three long fevers common in New England--a
Company Ironmongers. Pig Iron and Foundry..
bo appears to
rathor wall employed just at Coke Importers. General Store where malaria yields quickly to quinine present, rated rather quiet, and anles have boon keepers and Commission Agents, and tropical fevers are unknown. The three effected at $97 per share. Fenwicks, as well as 35 & 97, Hing Loong Street, ara typhoid, tuberculosis and sepsis. At the Amoy Doshe, are weak. Shanghai Dooks, (1st Street West of Central Massachusetts General Hospital, where the which advanced in the north to Tla. 75, close
Market.) Telephone No. 51 5.
proportion of these three is lowered by the 76 for end of March. Hongkong and Kowloon nominal at Tir. 73, with a reported sale at Tha. rale excluding pulmonary tuberculosis except Wharves have changed hands at 86, at which PHOTOGRAPHER
through mistake, 784 lover, caees were invent-rate sellers predominate. The call of 850 per igated, and 580 proved to be typhoid, 54, tuberculosis and 70 sapsis, making 50 per cent. of the whole, while of the long lovers not common there were 27 cases of meningitis, 10 of influenza, 9 of acnte rheumatism, 5 of leucemis, of cancer, and 19 of all others. Painstaking physicians should distinguish betwean the three common fevers, yet mistakes in diagnosis are made sometimes, with fatal results, Typhoid is a general poisoning of the blood by bacteria, and is liable to be mistaken for in berculosis when intestinal symptoms are absent, se is sometimes the condition. Tuberculosis may exist without cough, when the patient may be shut up in a darkened room as a victim of typhoid-thig being the worst possible treatment. Sepsis includes all blood-poisoning by pas, such as abscesses, wounds, appendicitis and all hidden nicerations, and is most difficult to detect when arising from abenassss of the liver, as this organ has no nerves to sigasl trouble. To the modern educated physician there is no such thing as simple continued fever," or "slow fever," or "low fever," or "bilious fover," or "guairic
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D MERCHANT NAVY 1
NAVY BOILED LONG FLAX
DOCK No. 3
Extreme Length...
***
Length on Blocks
793 feet. 774
Width of Entrance on Top
***
80%
Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
34
DOCK No. 1.
Extreme Length...
MI
$23 feet
295
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Length on Blocks
633
Width of Entrance on Top
49
Width of Entrance on Bottom...
Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
DOCK No. 2
Extrazis Length
Length on Blooks.
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871 feet.
Width of Entranos on Top Width of Entrance on Bottom... Water on Blocks af Spring Tida
PATENT SLIP. Suitable for vessels up to 1,000. THE WORKS are well equipped with LATEST PLANTS and APPLI- ANCER to undertake BUILDING or. REPAIRING SHIPS, ENGINES and BOLLERS; and
ELECTEICAL -WORK
A LARGE STOCK of MATERIAL' is always kept on hand,
700 LAP
The COMPANY has the powerful steamer "OURA MARU (712 tons, specially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES equipped with necessary "gear. always ready Bhort Noticn
79)
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
INLAND LOT No. 1706,
ITUATE at North Point, Shankiwan Road, Hongkong, (next to the Metropole Hotel).
The property contains by admeasurement 103,950 square foot. Crown Rent, $238.00 per
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For further particulars, apply to
GOLDRING & BARLOW, Solicitors,
10, Queen's Road Central.. Hongkong, 12th September 1007. 1494
ON SALE.
THE FIFTY YEARSTM
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
日英中年十五
FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1881 TO 31ST DECEMBER
1918, BRING FROM THE 1ST YEAR OF THE 76TH GYELÉ, TO THE 50гH YEAR OF TH
76TH FOLK, THAT IS THE SED YEAR OF TUNG CHI TO TIE 39H „KWONG BUL.
PRIJE 12 CASH,
YEAR от
On Sale at the HONE KONG "DAILY PRESS " OFFICE, or Agents in all the Ports of the Dar Fast
The Book will be sat by Registered Post (free) to sxy part of the World unrepresented by Agente ou receipt o Maney Order.
Hongkong, 3rd October, 1906.
3841
CANVAS. RELIANCE CROWN EN TARPAULING
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.
Bola Agents
PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE fever."
M&S GILDANDERS
"CLAREMONT,” 2 & KENNEDY ROAD. Hongkong, 9th February, 1907.
1530
DR. M. H. CHAVN,
THE latest Method of the AMERICAN
SISTEM DENTISTRY.
KE
$3, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. From the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Rongkong. 17th April, 1907.
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TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation Free. Hongkong, 21st September, 1905
ON SALE
* TABLE OF THE
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RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG
For Demand Drafts on London on the day o or preceding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Averages for 33 Years FROM 1874 To 1906,
Price: $2. Cash. On sale at the DAILY PRESS" Offloa, or Local Booksellers.
The abundance and variety of ants is a strik- ing feature of the animal life of the southern slope of the Himalayas. The snow-line rinas 6,500 feet higher than in the Alpa and Dr. Forac recorded tour species at a height of 12,000 foot, while of 112 spooly known in these mountains, not less than 50 sa loval, found only in the Himalayas.
Lauda remain on offer at $96, and Kowloon LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS.-Hongkong Lands are obtainable at the reduced rate of $35. Other stocks under this beading are unchanged.
COTTON MILLS.-Without basicCHE, unchanged except Ewes, which have bayers in the north at Tls. 49.
and
Hongkong Electrics gold and bave zellers at BUNDET MANUFACTURING COMPANIES-- $15. Green Island Cementa fetched $11 and $11, closing firm at the lower cats. Other stocks under this beading are unchanged.
MISCELLANEOUS-China-Borneos fare sollers at $103, China Providenta sold and are in at $125 to $13. Langkate live bayers at Tis. request at 30. Old Tramways have been done 355; William Powelle changed owners at 85 and S. closing with buyers at the lower and sellers at the higher rate. Other stocks onder this heading unchanged and without sales,
SOLE AGENTS IN HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA. A. S. WATSON & CO.LTD.
1768
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
CNA and JAPAN for the above Line THE Undersigned GENERAL AGENT: are prepared to issue THROUGH BILLS OF LADING for all the principal ports in SOUTH AFRICA, in connection with INDO CHINA STRAN NAVIGATION Co.'s fortnightly service hanos to CALOUTTA. Sailings from CALCUTTA for CAPE PORTs every fortnight
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DODWELL & CO., LIMITED
-General Agents for China and Japar. Hongkong, 4th August, 1898.
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