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MOTOE NOTES FROM HOME,
Written for the Hongkong Daily Preni ]
LONDON, December 27.
A MEERT MOTOR CHRISTMAN,
- 4. Qas of the worst places to put ignition wiring is moar the Bilenger or exhaust pipes, or any other pisos where there is much beat. Even if there is not anfi olent heat to burn the insula- tion, the material will deteriorate and become practically neelses in a short time,
An instance of bow the motor industry is growing in India. I am informed that the Sapney Spare Motor, Wheel Co., Ltd. have shipped no fewer than 400 Stepney wheels to India alone within the last three months,
The New Engine Motor Co., Ltd. bare secured an order for a 40 hp. Limousine with front seats completely closed in for the Thakors will carry aias persons in all. The car can be Sahib af Condal, for use in India. The vehicle used as a completely open one, if required..
ACROSS THE ALTS BY CANAL..
performed by Italian engineers, the ides of Were it not for the marvellous feats already, connecting Ganga and Lake Constanss by water ond foaling a barge over the Apennines and Alps themselves would sound too like su idle fairy tale to be worth consideration. "But the plas Camlunda has a trilion of ignor apparently won the support of Senator Colambe, a famous saginser himself sed the president of the Polytechuis of of King-Victor Emmanuel and the Italian Lombardy, and has already attrated the notice public, says the Times.
It has been a Merry Christmas for motorists for the most part fios and dry, though old, The opportunity was, therefore, seized by most of us to get out of harass for a day or two, and out of Town by means of any vehicle available. It had been my intention to taka a run on a Starling with a view to describing this areal lent small car for the benefit of Eastern readers But the Star people had other, and more festive, intentions of their own. Hence the Starling must wait until next week. Thus I went off on Christmse eve with a big Panhard moer whose price runs up to four figures. There can be no question about the enormous super ority of the big our over the small one, from the point of view of the pleasure seeker. Taes. Ing through the crowded streste, and out into the keen country air, I red oted upon the strange mental aberrations that soirs upon the motorphoba as to the alleged dangers attending the motor car. The flexibility, even of a big car running at speed, is much greater than that of the horse-drawn vehicle, so that one can ontWithout attempting an exact description of it much more finely in passing other vehicles, Signer Caminada's invention, it may get be without the slightest risk of collision, while possible to give a rough idea of the principle underlying it. As every one knows, the or the car can be brought to a standstill within a dinary method of festing shipping over na much shorter distance.
eminence is by a series of locks one higher then the other. Bluguor Caminada's locks, or rather the spaces between the and gate of agress, will be inclined tahalar gate of ingross oinals For example, the waterway will reach its highest point at Isolats, in the Splingan Pass, the distance between Isolata and San Vittore, near Chiavanna, involves rise of 960 mètres. This distance of a ma kilometres will be traversed by double line 16 of parallel tabular causis, each divided into 137 seotions. The water descends through both, but crosses to each las alternately, so that, while a vessel descends with the sinking water in a sec-- the rising water in a lower section of the other. tion on one line, another vessel is rising with. Those indined tubular canals will be constructed
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THE ENGINE AS A BRAKE,
In this connection, of course, everything depends on the brake offioleusy. One of our brakes, on this occasion, was a little obstinato and it is a useful thing to remember that the engine itself can be brought to bear as a very powerful ally. Every driver should hear this in mind, and be always ready to ast upon it in an emergency, If on the low gear, with tha engine at the lowest speed, the velocity of the car usu never become great. To brake with the engine. merely switch off the ignition. If raping at speed, the brakes are applied, and ignition switched off as well, the net can, if
necessary, be made to stop almost dead. But, let everyone "hold tight otherwias the unwary one is sikely to find himself stride of the bonnet in a most ungainly and uncomfortable [attitude.
SIDE SLIPH AND STUDDED TÝZER.. In the neighbourhood of Barnet we had an illustration of the value of studded tyres. The road was "up" and the room allowed for the passage of vehiòlen very limited. To add
the difficulty the road had been watered for some reason or other, and, was axceedingly slippery To avoid a lumbering van a sharp turn had to be made. Our own car awung "smartly round, but another car following skidded, and found itself hang ap with two wheels in a three-foot
seems no native to the studded tyre it the motorist
Remarkably smooth motion. Noiseless change of gear. xcavation. There come to be un alter
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*GGERFORD (Furnished) No. 114, PAX. Contains 6 ROOMS. No, 71, WYNDHAM STREET. "GLENWOOD" Cats Boan, suitable for Bearding house or Club, Containing 26
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BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Offons. No. 16, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, and Dwelling Rooms Top Floor, (over Caldbook MacGregor). OFFICES in Queen's Road Central. BELILIOS ROBINSON ROAD.
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LADBROKE, No. 9, CONDUIT Road, 8 Hooms, Farnished or Unfurnished from 15th April, 1908. Largo Bervants' Quarter and full xixsd Tonnis Court
No. 3, DUDDBLL STREET Shop sad 1st Floor.
No. 6. DES VEUX VILLAS (PEAT). No. 57, PRAYA GRANDE, Ko
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ODOWN No. 101, Praya East. Apply to
CHATER & MODY,
Victoria Buildings. Hongkong, 15th January, 1908,
missotity, olor'd with iron gates, Signor G
Caminada claims that his system will need a far smaller water supply than would be needed for the ordinary rising lock system that it will naturally be more expeditious, and that it will be les abject to obstruolion by ice as the water will never be sufficiently stagnant to be frozen ovor in winter. He also says that he has assured Himself of the sufficiency of the water supply, s far as orossing the Alps is concerned, and that the supply in the Apennines, though lose certain, can be awared by reservoirs at no very great expense. His plan seems to have gained the attention of very competent judges of its feasibility so that a journey from Genos to Basel-by-water may really by someday"madę“ possible.
THE BOON OF HEALTH.
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Farcished, with separate. Kitobans and Bates for each set of Rooms. Good so001- modation. Gas, Electrie and Watse laid on. Reat very moderate,
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· Hongkong, 15th January, 19·8.
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THE ROOMS-on the first floor of No. 34,
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, oppo
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251 Hongkong, 23rd January, 1908,
A.B. 29,
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Lost, unfurnished, from the middis
A HACIENDA, East, Mount Kellet,
or and of April next. For particulars apply ta the undersigned.
Q. H. GRACE, Care of Elecretary's Office, Hongkong Club. Hongkong, 5th February, 1908
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G
311
ODOWN. No, S, NEW PRAYA, Ken-
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FROM JOT MAT. OWLOON MARINE LOT 48, Tsumat, KW 85,200 square feet and with 255 feet Sea Frontage. Especially suited for Storage of Coal, Timber, &
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THE Top Floor of No. 2, Wyndham Street Tlately recated by the Hotel Baltimore, suitable for a Club or Boarding House.
No 7, PEDDEE'S HILL
First Floor of No. Queen's Rond, Central, comprising Six Large Rooms and Outhonics suitable for business Pre- mises or Dwellings, DOW corpion by Fan, BORNHMANÉ & CO.
Second Floor of No. 8A, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, above the Office of DAvım SASSOON & Co., LTD.
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DAVID 648800N & Co. LTD. 96 Hongkong, 6th February, 1908.
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FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd
Floors of No: 18, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, (formerly psompied by Messrs. SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.).
HOUSE, No. 11, SEYMOUR ROAD, Bowly painted and colour washed, Peter
*O FIVE-ROOMED BUNGALOW, THE NEUK No 84 Mount Gough, Peak, Garden and Toanis. (From 1st April next)..
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THE COMPRADORE DEPT., Jardine, MATHESON & CO, LTD, Counsaght Road Central, Hongkong, 1st February, 1908.
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299
is to be secured from side-slip, Yet this There is no greater single source of happiness light, spacious and well ventilated. Very? 1. ROBINSON ROAD; eplendid situa
than that wich comes from the possession of £100,000. cannot be really happy. Thenfore good health. An invalid though he possess every min and woman should seek the hoon of sound health
Now what is health? It is the orderly working of all the bodily functions. and brain depend on the proper digestion of The nourishment and strength of your body your food,
form of tyre has decided objections. It is much less comfortable than the plain tyre, its life is much aborter, and its cost is much higher. Everything, however, depends on the driver, and very much on the car itself. I have known cars which were very stable on plain Lyres, and others of the same weight mest unstable unless Alled with studded tyres Bat
Indigestion is the chief ailment of the humin the speed-man who will not slow down, even in race, It starves your system. You become traffic, must take no chances with plain tyto decomposition of the antigasted mass in weak, nervous, ante nie, while impurities, dae and so he alsude condemned to the higher stomach and bowels, pass into your blood and priced, shorter lived studded tyres. Had oar poison your whole system. friend of Christmas Eve, with the plain tyres pot tried to emalate our I admit it-very bid example, he would have arrived at his destins tion at least a couple of hours earlier.
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On the first indication of digestive weakness' favigorate your stomach, liver sud bowels, take Mother Seigel's Syrup. It will tone and
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Mrs. Farrow, 3, Livingstons Place, Ber Street Norwich, weiles. I lost appetite, and suffered very much from pains in the stomach, and wind. I had headachen very often, was began to have pains in my back, too. But at troubled greatly with constipation. Then I last I was advised to take Mother Seigel's Syrup, and that cured me
Mother Boigel's Syrup ouras Indigestion, Biliousners Constipation, Headache, Wind Palpitation, Oppression at the Chest. Loss of Appolite, Pains after Fond, Nausen, Dizziness, and the many other ills that arise from a disordered state of the digestive system.
site the General Post Once) The Rooms_sra
moderate rent. Immediate Possession,
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Same address,'
270 Hongkong, 28th January, 1907.......
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TO. 2, CHANCERY LANE. & ROOMED
Central Locality,
** STILLINGFLETE". Posk Road. --SIX-
ROOMED HOUSE with Fine View of Harber
"HARPERVILLE" Garden Road, BIX- ROOMED HOUSE fitted with Elsetrio Eight- and full mes of Tennis Court
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PERCY SMITH & SETH,
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5, Queen's Road: Central. Hongkong, 10th February, 1908.
FYROM 15th February, “FAIRVIEW,
tios, with fine view of harbour; Blx. Big Booms-Apply to IB.
Care of Daily Press" Office, Hongkong, 5th February 190%. -.
LAB No. 16, DES FOUL ROAD.
312.3
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·ARGE OFFICE ROOM on First Floer.
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No. 16, Dos Vœux Road Centen Hongkong, 23rd January, 1903,
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"UCTION ROOKS, No.3, Zetland Street,
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Nos. 2 and 4* FAIRVIEW," ROBINSON BOAD. Kowloon.
WOODBURY" GARDEN ROAD. ROSENEATH” KOWLOON,
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HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE
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Mole Seigel's Syrup is of also prepared NO. 59, CAINE ROAD. in Tables form, and sold under the name of
Nos. 27 and 31, SEYMOUR ROAD Matier Saigals Syrup Tablets,
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MARSHALL ISLAND DISPUTE
A SETTLEMENT IMMINENT,
SAM WANG. CO., LTD.,
81, Queen's Road Central Hongkong, 27th November, 1907.
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F. X. D'ALMADA & CASTRO,
83, Queen's Rosd Central.. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1919.
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and 5-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon,
moter car. Thus a new terror is presented to dwellers in country mansions, with which the rural police seem singalarly unable to deal. Several burglaries have cocurred already this aeason, and the manner of the advent and departure of the operators seems to suggest the use of motor cars. Now, whilst the rural, and even the suburban, countable is quite in his element trapping unsuspecting and legitimate motoriste in broad daylight, and obtaining convictions on evidence which, to THE say the least of it, is very questionable, he is totally at a loss after nightfall. I confess to size of commission in this respect myself, sad,
The Daily Graphic" understands that the CRESCEAT, Robinson Road. Furnished SII ROOMED HOUSE at ELLIOT save for eldritch yells, and perhaps a futile dispute beswoon the British and German blowing of whistles, have not been thereafter Government in regard to alleged infractions of
or Unfurnished... identified. Yot the experienced motorist would the Angle orman Declaration of April 10th, be able to tell, within a fair mossare of 1986 by Germa officials in the Marshall accuracy, the make and horsepower, number of Islanda, has entered tipen a new phase, which promises a result in an early settlement cylinders, etc. of the car that passed in the satisfactory to both parties. It will be remem night. But how many people can identify the bered that the grisace of Great Britain arose. make of a var in the daytime 2. It is safe to on; of cert sia compisinta made by su Australian
sume that the average policeman koows a firm, Messere, Bu-ns. Philip, and Co. to the effoot that their trade withdle Varshall Islande much of motor cars as a Chinese coolie does of had been ruined through a virtual monopoly aeroplanes "Cars and How to Deiant Thom granted in violatio, of the Declaration of 1886, would be a monographs of greater vales than to the German company administering the that of the late, lamented Sherlock Holmes on plain dymeg, Negotiations took place islands. Mars, Barns. Philip, and Co. tobacco ash. And it would he mors to the in 1996 and last year, but proved un- credit of the police if they would pay more scornful, Great Britain then proposed Attention to cars that pars in the nights to submit the 060 to arbitration, in I have not infrequently soon them with accordance with the provisions of the Anglo- ineficient lights, or no lights at all, than to This was deel ned by Germany on the ground German Arlitration Treaty of July 12th, 194 raising quibbles about the "legal limit," as that a similar proposal made by her in regard observed from behind hedgerows and through to certain German claims. for damages arising telescopes. On the top of this comes, appro Great Britain. It has since been shown, how out of the Boer War had not bona accepted by priately, a yarn from New York. It is to the ever, that the grievance, of Germany is not on effeot that a gaz g of burglars, men and women, all fours with the British grievance, party H 1st March pert. have been touring the summer resorts, bracking because it does not belong to the class of into bonsos, ad ukaring off with their booty 1904 relates, and partly because that Treaty
questions to whica the Arbitration Treaty in a big red car. Te goda Fancy burglars in is clearly not retroactive The Germa ored car. The intelligence of the American Government have now, we understand, re- police must be on a par with that of our own. pognised the force of these objections, sad here withdrawn their proposal to mix up the M NOR MEMS.
the British proposal to submit the Marshall the British her bave agreed to consider NO: 5, MOBBISON HILL.
One FOUR ROOMED HOUSE at Prays Islands dispate to arbitration on its merits. Test, near East Point. and in these circumstances it is believed that, fual and friendly understanding will speedily
Apply to be ronched.
Such is the amount of work that Mears. Argyll Motors, Ltd., have in band that from last Monday (23rd) the whole of the works a on full time.
of
COMMODIOUS SHOP in Des Voix Rood Central, Hongkong Immediato possession“ Moderate rentals.
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137
Hongkong, 18th January, 1908;
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TOUSE, No. 41, Wyndham Street, from
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9. Pedders HIL "Hongkong, th February, 1908.
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320
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 21st October, 1997.
LEIGH & ORANG'S,
1. Des Voeux Rond.
87
· Hangkong, 10th February, 1908.
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OFFICES in ALEXANDRA: BUILDINGS,
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SECRETARY, A. S, Watson de Co. Limited. Hongkong, 3rd April, 1907,
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DER 1st January, Quo OFFICE ROOM
"an Second Floor, Prince's Buildings. Apply to
„REUTER, BROECKET MANN &:00, Hongkong, 9th December, 1907. 102
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TO. 2 MACDONNELL ROAD
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COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yasen Kaisha, Hongkong, 3rd June, 1905.
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