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S. MOUTRIE
& CO., LTD.
THE ORCHESTRELLE CO.8- NEW MODEL AERIQLA
PIANO PLAYERS ETURNED AFTER A FEW MONTHS
ON HIRE
REDUCED TO $350.
MARVEL OF MECHANICAL GENIUS AND THE MOST PERFECT INSTRU MENT ON THE MARKET.
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A WRITTEN GUARANTEE GIVEN
WITH EACH INSTRUMENT.
BOLE AGENTS:
9. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.
York Building, Chater Road., 37-1
Hongkong, 13th November, 1907.
THORNE'S
PER CASE
OLD VAT
THE VAT WAS STARTED THAT
$15
OF GAZENOCK AND HAS BEEN DOLU AB İNİ – SINCE (03)
SCOTCH WHISKY.
SOLE AGENTS IN
303
HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA. A.S.WATSON & CO.LTD. AySlathe is of Jonat
TO LEI
TO LET
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
CODOWN at Davies Streat, Kennedy
Towr, lately coinpied by the STANDARD
OIL COMPANY.
Apply
CHATER MODY.
Hourlong, 24th March, 1908.
TO LET.
602
No.
TO LET
TO LET.
70. 2, MAODONNELL ROAD.
Apply to-
COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Hongkong, Sed June, 1905.
TO LET.
ARGE OFFICE ROOM » First Floor Apply to FERD, BORNEMANN,
No, 16, Des Tear Road Central.
144 Hongkong, 23rd January, 1903,
TO LET,
LARGE FOR
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 1917. 1998.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY
DISTANT APPARATUS CONTROLLED BY SOUND
with further buyarı.İlham
buyers. Other stocks under this heading are SHARE REPORT:
BUNDEY-MANUFACTURING COMPANIESanchauged,
fold st MIBOBLLANEOUS,China-Bornos -Chins Light and Powers have improved to Moners Brich Goerg & Co, say in their weekly buyers at $5. Hongkong Elentries soll and rates between $10 and $11, and have seller af. A BEVOLUTION IN LIBRARIES-STUONG share report dated Hongkong, 11th April, 1908.aza in request at $16. Dairy Farma bave the higher Bigars China Providents changed OAR MANTLER-TEABING OUT ONES EYES-A comparatively fair business has been done enquiries at 818). Green Island Cementsbar.a hands at 88; and $9, closing with buyers at the ICR-KAKING AT HOME-NATURE'S COMPASS during the weak under review, but mostly in the sold in large quantities at 8111 to 811, but at lower, and sellers at the hight rate, Langkata -VRANIUM'S PRODUCTS-GARBAGE, COAL smaller stooks, and several stooke bare improved the close the market is firm again at 8111; have buyers in the North at Tls 455; Waters in value. The sterling demand rate of exchange Ropes jumped from $25 to $28, with sales at sold at $10. Other stocks under this heading NOT A DRINKING WATER DISEASE.
those and intermediate rates, and have further are without sals; and unchanged in ratos on London closes at 16. 10-5/16d., while rates on Shanghai are 11s, 741 for & Bank T/T, and Tls, 74 for a three days sight Private Draft Barzilver in London is quoted 25-3/168., and Consels £87. The Bank of England rate of discount remains at 3 per cent.. and the privato market rate of discount 21 per cent.
BANK SHADES-Hongkong and Shanghai Bank shares have ruled quist daring the week, with no sales and sellors at $699, the London rate having fallen to £73. 10. Od Nationals are unchanged.
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By his ingenious system of controlling distant electric signals by sound, John Gardner English electrician, olatras to make sa aatomo bile torpedo respond like a dog to a call, to fire a mine, blow a steamer's whistle, or give uzsfél siguale po su olectric bell or printing telegraph. The squads-preferably transmitted through water--must have a constant musical pitob, duration and interval, thongh several simultane.
MADINE INSURANCE SHARES-Uniona have ous sounds of differing pitch may be necessary been done at $84, Chins Traders have buyers lo set in some cases, The sounds are recaired at 391 and North Chinas at Tia, 81. Yangtzes by a vibrator of steel taps, on which is are firm at 8147) for old and 81374 for new mounted a carbon-pencil microphone, which shares; Cantons are on offer at $240;
FIRE INSURANCE SHARES-Hongkong, sold | remains stationary with silence or an unsuitablet-33024, 305 and $3 73, and have buyers at note bat amplifies a note for which the vibrator latter rate. Chinas have changed hande at $99 is tuned, and this diminishes the contact between and $90, and more shares are wanted. vibrator and microphone, lessening the current through a relay and thus causing a tongue to drop and close a local circuit, which affects the action desired. Several distinct operations may RST Class European Houses, Lochiele controlled. In a small model a propeller F Terrace and Humphrys Avenue, Kow: has been started, a radder set as duafred, ami au
THE ROOMS on the first floor of No. 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, (oppo site the Generali Post Ofoe) The Rooms are light, spacious and well-ventilated Very poderate rent. Immediata PosseKKİON.
Apply te
YEE SANG FAT & CO
Some address.
270 Hongkong, 28th January, 1907.
oon.
TO LET,
TAM TSZ KONG.,' Apply to-
Caro of Hip Os Insurance, Exchange and Loan Co, Ld., 42, Boubam Strand, West.
94 Ikong, 1st October, 1907.
TO LET
FROM 1ST MAY.
KOWLOON MARINE LO and with 255
Area 85,200 square feet fest Sea Frontage. Especially suited for Storage of Coal, Timber, &9.
-Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LTD... Houglong, 18th January, 1908.
TO LET.
221
HOUSE KNUTSFORD TERRACE
AKOWLOON
No. 3, CANTON VILLAS; Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. [85 Hongkong, 1st April, 1968,
TO LET.
HAMBERS in No. 2, WYNDHAM
STREET, Moderate Kent.
CHA
One ROOM with Verandah and Small Room on the Second-floor of No 8. Des Vaux Road Central, above our Ofoe, Buitable for business premises or dwellings.
First Floor of No. 6, Queen's Road,
ELI Large Central, comprising
Rooms and Outhouses suitable for business Pre- ecoupied by Dwellings, now misos or FERD BORNEMANN.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co. LTD. -96 Hongkong, Zih April, 1908.
TO LET... FFICES on Top Floor No. 2, Connaught
Road, facing the Cricket Ground. HOUSES in Wong Noi Choug Road, No. 10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
1st Alder.
"HATHERLEIGH," Conduit Road. OFFICES in You BUILDING. GODOWNS in PEATA BAST, BLUB BUILDINGS and No. 16B., Des Vosur Road next to the HONG KONG HOTEL.
FLATS in MORITON TEEEACE."- Apply to
ac ion ever several miles
:
SHIPPING SHABER-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboala havo rated quiet at $291 without als In Chinas are weak at 80 ($33 for preference and 324 fer deferred share'); Shanghai raports ale at Tis, 46, but later advices quote them buyers at Tis: 44: London rates are £4. 6. Od. and £2.108. 03. respectively.
explosive charge fired, all by the roles at a Chins and Manilas have been done at 15 and continue in desad, Douglas and at $40, distance of some yards in a tons & little abora aand mera sharos could probably be placed, star whisper. A powerful sound generator will give Ferries sold at 3301 to $31 for old, and at $151 to $15 for new shares. Shell Transporta sro 4. 98. in ze test at 159. 3L, London quoting sellers, Union Waterbosts changed ownership And at $104 to 8il, and more shares are inquired for.
REFINERIS-China Sugars wonkoned no offers over $1273 were obtainable until yesterday, when several pareola ld at 8139, at which figure the market class with bayers. Labs are unchanged.
The new library proposed in, Franca by R. Goldschmidt and Paul Otlet is to bavo mieros. copic print on paper of reduced sizy, and the books are to be read by a special muguifying pparatus. A uniform international standard of stasis suggested. The cost of the wall books would be not more than a sixth of bat of the present large ones, library work would be 19ssened, and capacity increased.
In a new French Wolstash mastle, the rare oxides are consolidated in jos oleotris farmace, greatly increasing resistance to shocks, tremors and draughts.
MINING SHALES-Charbonnages are wanted
at 3540. Kambs have been done at $7.80 to 58 and more shares can be paced at latter rate. Chiasse Engineering and Mining Company's shares are in demand at Ti.. 15.
DOCKS, WHARVIS, GODOWN, &c.-Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Company's shares, after selling st3:02, 103 and 8104, hero small sellors at 8103; a male at $106 for end of Jane is also reported. Fenwicks are on the market "Ordipism" is the name given to the aetat. 513. New Amoy Docks are quiet at $10; of shareholders, to be held in Amoy to-day of tearing out one's own eyes. Dr. Ch. Lafon, the report for the 18th ordinary yearly menting a French physician, reports the recent case of states that the net earnings of the dock for the & merchant, made insane by Isses, who at year 1907. amount to $27,001.86 (against, tempted suicide by dashing his head sguinst a $25,963.35 for 1906), and after dedacting well and tried to ruptare his eye-balls by salaries, charges, interest, groundrent, and repairs, thore remains a balansa.nt redit_of. pressing his thumbs against them, The globes working account of $11,686.03 (against $9,379.56 were not ruptured, though blindness eventually for 1996), to which has to be added the balanse reanited,bout twenty similar ensok are found of $2,619.02 brought forward from 1906, making deal with as follows:-to write off Amoy to be on record, and in every instance the a total of 814,284,16, which it is proposed to patient always insane--has tried to tear out Docks 3885.92 and off plant and machinery both eyes. Every degree of injury has been 31,416.73, commission to manager $1,166 GU, inflicted. Eminent physicians have doubted that to goneral managers and consulting committee the eyes could be torn out by the fingers alone, S600, to transfer $1,000 to repairs and renewals aconnat, and Lo pay the shareholders a dividend but recent facts have proven that the muscles of 50 cents per share, absorbing $5,000 learing a sad tough optia nervo have been toru and balance of $1,214.91 to be carried forward to After the abovo mentioned saraiched through by the nails, and the evidenco new account. is conclusive that the eye balls have been writings off-bave been affected, the Dook will completely removed in some cases. The gulf stand in the boots at 861,000 and plant and machinery at 858,000, the ice iligal book calues mutilators are all melancholics, usually with of last your, the amounts written off represent religious delusions, self-destraction being the ing the additions during 1807; concession lot end in view. Temporary injury is inflisted by No. 9 remains at $1,206 22. materia's on hand designing sane persoas, and malingerets each gare with $53.993.99 (last year 8 4,314 21) and cash in bond and sundry debtors (including working on seeking special compensation work in progress) with $42,345,9%. (against and soldiers wishing, to sepure discharge-814,549.57 as per last report). On the other sometimes mutilate the eye by latroducing tobaccs or other irritating anbalanops,
The novel household freezing machine de- caribed by Coneul R. J. Thompson from Hanover bas a capacity of five gaileas or more, and is a doubly-walled vessel of tin with s
THE HONGKONG LAND INVE hollow space an inch deep completely surround
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 1st April. 1908
TO LET.
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FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd OFFICES OF NO. 11, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, (formerly oconpied by Messrs HOUSE in KENNEDY ROAD, Healthy SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.).
Apply to
Locality.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSE in Morrison Bill Gap Road, Suitable for Married Couple with Small Family. Rents low.
EUROPEAN FLATS in “WILD. DELL BUILDINGS." Rents low.
No. 9.WILD DELL BUILDINGS" Large and Airy Godowa within easy access of the water front.
No. 2 CHANCERY LANE, Six-Roomed Houss fitted with Electric Light. Central Locality.
Apply to
PERCY SMITH & SETH,
Acountants & Auditora, e., 4 Queen's Road Central Honkong, 11th April, 1908.
TO LET.
700
$6
THE COMPRADORE DEPT., JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD, Connaught Road Central.
299 Hongkong, 25th February, 1908.
TO LET,
ing the inner compartment, Carbonic acid from ordinary storage under pressure is admitted to the bottom of this surrounding chamber, passing through a cross-armed tube into the top of the inner verael. The sudden orpansion of the oarbonic acid yields rest cold, and water is changed to ica in sixty econds, while meats, fruits, bottled beverages, cot, may be chilled or frozen in a few we onds,
The thousands of sandhill masts of the
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**magnelio“. ant of Northern Australia lately inspected by the Governor-General-messirə to by 10 to 5 fost. They form LENWOOD" CAINE ROAD, suitable
"nature's compass," the long axis point, For a Boarding house or Club. Coning always north and south. taiping 26 Roome.
No. 1, COLLEGE GARDENS, Furnished For 5 or 6 Months, cheap routal."
OFFICES in Bank Kaildings, Top Floor, From 1st July, 1908.
NU. 6, BELILIOS TERRACE, Jat Kowed a new substance, for which Peat Bolt- Corner House.
BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Offfee! sad Dwelling Rooms.
No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, OFFICES in Queen's Road Central, BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES,
NE FOUR ROOMED HOUSE at Praya Top Floor, (over Caldbeck Maotiregor), ON Fast, near East Point,
Apply to--
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. ROBINSON ROAD. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1908.
TO LET.
93.
FAIRVIEW," No. 1, Robinson Road, Houghong, 6 big Rooms, nios view of
harbour.
Apply to
Messrs. J. ULLMANN & Co.,
31. Queen's Kond. Hongkong, 1st April, 1908.
TO LET
38
and 5-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon.
COMMODIOUS SHOP in Des Voeux Road. Central Hongkong, Immediato possession Moderate rontala,
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LD. 840 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1908.
TO LET.
NO. BARROW TERRACE, Kowken,
Cheap Rantal Apply fo
SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1948.
656
89
No. 3, DUDDELL STREET Shop. No. 2. DES. VEUX VILLAS (PEAK), No. 57, PRAYA GRANDE, Macao;
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Building Hongkong, 13th April, 1908.
TO LET
Side of the DOUGLAS. E WHARE
WITHER
Terms on Application to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD
637. Hongkong, 31st March, 1968.
TO LET. 08. 27, 31 and 33, SEYMOUR ROAD. Apply to
SAM WANG CO., LTD.,
81. Queen's Road Central. .(0) Hongkong, 27th November, 1907.
TO LET.
OFFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
Apply-
SECRETARY, * A. B. Watson & Co., Limited. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907,
In the transformation of urauint into héliam, nocording to Prof. Ratherford's review of the latest researchop, there is certainly form.
wood has proposed the name ioninm, and this sabatanas is the immediate parent of radiam Associated with ioniam in such a manner as to ruggent, also an origin from uranium is natinium. For every gram of uranium
ROY present in
mineral ther seems to to a certain fraction of radium, and the amoant of actinium Biso bars a definite basis to the amounts of uraning although radium and actinium appear to have no direct connection. Hon. E. J. Strutt has just shown that beliam is yielded by rare earths ontaining thorium. This makes it evident that radium, actinium and thorium, the three most intensely radioactive substauos is nature, bave helium as their faal disintegration pro-. uot, or at lonet as one of their final products. Whether lead is another product is etilla matter of doubt.
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The idea of using house refuse for fasl, as-is being so soccorsfully attempted in the refuse burning plants of large cities, is applied on a small scala in the new fual-called "coalescine
of an English borough engineer. Garbage, bits of unburned coal from the ashes, and other waste, are pulverized, mixed with tar, and-made into brignotlos. This faol is claimed to be not only parlestly hygienic, but to show high efficiency ander boilera The cost is so moderate that small towns are saabled to dispose of their waste by a practically self-supporting method.
Typhoid is now known in spring from, a variety of Bouros, and De. Shton, a British health ofour, doubts whether ton per cont. of cases can be attributed to infested drinking water. Pollated food sema to be a commen couse, and cases of doubtful origia have 'sng. gested that other germs besides the so-called yphoid bacilli may produce the disesse.
hand the expital is $67,000 and the reserve fuad 388,000 le 835,637.78 were owing to the Houghong and Shanghai Bansing Corporation (last year $12,572.79), and saudey cenditors apper with $3,127.85 (last rear $1,971,17 Shanghai Docks has been done and can bo lood at 11s. 80. Hoogkeng and Kowloon Wharrea changed hands to a small ex ont ut $59 but farther shares ars on offer. Shanghai and Hongker Wharves sld locally as high as la, 22, aid have further buyers at The 224. LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS Hong kung Lant Investment and Agency Company's buyers now at $99, Kowloon Linde fetched shares sold in a small way at $99, but have got which rate more shares can be placed. West Points are offering at $19. Hongkong Hotels are weak at $97. A few Humphreys Estates sold at $10 and $10 and shares can be placed at 810. Shanghai Lands are quoted Ti 113 in the Ner L.
COTTON MILLS.-Northern Mi'la are un. changed. longtong Cottons have anddenly come fato faronc, selling at 39 to $10, closing
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Science and Art go hand-in-bund making Welshmeh not only the most efficient, but the most Elegant Tight.
Welsbach
GLOBES AND FITTINGS.
Fer household lighting Wolsbach have the largest selection of artistic globes amul gas Btlings; plza Il a g}obs, frosted globes in orory shape and design, with effects in Browe, Blue, Pink, Orange. Citron, Lemon, etc.
The thousands of things, compris9 - Pendants and Brackets for 'ght or inverted lighting in solid brass, lacquer, wrought iron and bright, copper, neydised steal and nafique copper effects to suit a l tastes and pockets.
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SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA:
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