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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES 'SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES FROM HAMBURG, MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRATIS. THE Steamship
"MONMOUTHSHIRE” Captain Warner, having arrived from the atora Ports, Consignees of Cargo are horeby informed that their Goods are being landed at their riak into the Godowns of the Hongkong Bud Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon; and stored at Consignees risk and expense.
INSURANCES
THE HONGKONG DIJEY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1908.
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
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Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS #gainzi. FIBE at Current Rates.
CARLOWITŹ & Co.' Hongkong, 18th August 1906.
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN
BURANCE CO.
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OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE,
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HE Undersigned, having been-appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are at. Current Estes.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
À NOVEL LAMP~A MITH SINGE—BRADEN LIGATRING PATSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES
The rapid development of the Incandescent lamp in resent months has brought not only metallio filaments, mes as tentalem and tung sten, but has given a greater novelty in the hellon lamp of Parker and Clark, inasmuch sa thie filament can be used without the usual high Foam, This property is of great advantage for lampe exposed to shook, such as those on battleships, where a few minutes of gun-firing
THE CURRENCY QUESTION IN CHIHLI
HE. Viceroy Yang has received an im.
OF MOTORINGA" "STRỌNG" GAN MANTES-portant despatch from the Board of Financë A. GREAT COUNT—THE
SKY STUDIO Concarning the Chinese money markets in TITRIOLIC LUBRICATION-COLOUR PHOTO-Tientsin, Pioting, and other big cities The GRAPHY IN COURT.
despatch says that, although a large quantity of Contest Mint, in the Native City of Tientsin new silver dollars have been turned out by the during the last couple of years, the sirenlation number of bank-notes issued by all-descriptions is hindered by
the prasense of AD unlimited. of Chinese banks in the native city and the various foreign Cossessions. As this concerns the foreign and naive trade in North China, lisble officials to inspeat the books of those H. H. Yang has been requested to send, ra bative banks that issue notes, so as to sạẻ whether they have sufficient reserves
The Viceroy has slec been asked to that the Chiness merchants do not spoil their businesses by over-afooking i they mast carry on their trade according to their Enancial condition, for many traders were rained in recent years through over-stocking in Tientes, thaughai, and other ports.
All broken, ahafel, and dainaged Goods are to be left in the Gndowns, where they will be prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE destroys all vạcnum bulbs. The new diamenti set the demand, examined on MONDAY, the 4th inet,
at 3 P.M.
All claims must be presented within teen days of the steamer's atsiya! here, after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 14th inst, will be jeel to rent.
No Fire Inatranes has been effected.. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co
Agents.
Hongkong, 7th September, 1908,
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
✔THE Steamship
"LUETZOW.".. having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are horoby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opinn, Tressure and Valuable, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloon, sud West Point Godewus, whosee delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
WM. MEYERINK & CO., Agents Hongkong, 5th September, 1908. 114
ORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN. TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 315 DECEMBER, 1907 -£18,114,624.
2,750,000
I. Authorised Capital....... £3,000,000
Bubscribed Capital Paid-up Capital cinem
687,500 0 0 II. Fire Funds .......... 3,065,374 157 The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Reton
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st July, 190-
1019
ITSUBISHI GOSHI KAISHA (MITSUBISHI CO
have left the Godowns, and all Goods resaaining COAL DEPARTMENT
undelivered after the 16th September, will enbject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be. examined on the 16th September, at 9.80 a.m, All Claims must reach as before the 200 September, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Billa of Lading will be countersigned by the andersigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, MELCHERS & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 9th September, 1908. AMERICAN ASIATIC 2.8, COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK.
KE Steamship
THE
"INVERCLYDE,”
- Captain W. H. Les, having arrived from the above Port, Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, Kowloon and stored at Consignees risk and expenté.
All-brokar, chafed, und damaged goods are to be left in the godowns, where they will be. examined on WEDNESDAY, the 16th instant at 3 P.M.
All claims must be presented within fifteem days of the steamer's arrival hers, after which- date they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 16th inst. will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by SUDWAN TOMES & CO.
General Agenta.
Hongkong, 10th September, 1908. -
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
HE P. &0. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
PERA."
1284
FROX ANTWERE, LONDON, MALTA, PORTSAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS,
Consignees of Cargo by the above-name vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placod AT THEIR RIBK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Goderus at Kowloon where esok consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Optional goods will be landed here unless instractions are given to the contrary within 6 hours,
Goods not cleared by the 16th inst., at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever."
Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an appointed hour. Al-claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
FJ. ABBOTT, Acting Superintendent. Hongkong 10th September, 1998.
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made by "flashing the ordinary carbon filament in a special mixture of gases that gives a thick deposit of helion, and added resistance to air can be given by heating in gases to transform the surface into silicon oxids not got understood, is apposed to be aer officials in Tientsin to make a detailed and silicon nitride, Helion, a substance Commissioner of the entire city polies and Vioray Yang has instructed the Chief hitherto unka aliotropic form of silicon. raport of the suber of native banks, the It endures a higher temperature then carbon, quantity of notes issued by them and varions the filament is larger and shorter, and the limp
other particulars for the before-mentioned much reduced consumption of current for the has a longer life than the old one as well as a
Doard Through his Excellousy, so that proper means and ways may be devised to protest dane light,
the general public and improve foreign aad Chinese commares in South China. In addition to the above, H. E. Yang bas For more than half a century. It has been of counterfeit copper gents. Although the been further instrusted to stamp out the coining understood that the lateral line of scales along coining of copper sente was suspended in the ́esch aide of fishes is connected to a special various Provinces over three months ago, the nerve. The use of themo lateral organs has supply of one for five, one for-ten and one been a matter of much speculation, but the late twenty cash pieces is still more than the demand for experiments of Hofer seem to show that their so that the prios le still nearly the same as three English Mails from the Year of the Closing and Superstitions, combined with the insight it.
lower in the dollar. The foreign Consuls and or four months ago-being ouly about ten pieces Municipalities will be asked to co-operate with the Chinese officials by allowing Chinese con stables and detectives to follow and arrest the But the native papers doubt very much as to counterfeiters in their respective. Concessions, whether the suggestion will gain the endorse- ment of the foreign Censule and Municipali- ties-P. & T..Timer
chief fanstion is the perception of water or rente. They supply a new mense in place of the lacking esuse of touch. They cause u bllad. folded fish to stop and turn aside within an inch of a solid object, lead to streams and spawning brooke, and keep the fish world informed and
warded.
The strings of beads or pearls that some observers have seen as much as a second in the wake of lightning flashes are attributed by Dr. W. J. 8. Lookyer to incandescenes of the air,
A scientific study of the effects of motoring has failed to show A. Mounoyrat, French physiologist, that it causes serious nervous dis turbance and other troubles, as has been alleged, but be fade, on the other hand, that it is a powerful stimelani to circulation, nervous system and respiration, given just the action that recommends it as a remedy for complaints as anaemia, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, et In some disorders, high-speed travel tends to cure when other treatment is entirely without effect. The investigator himself made a nam bor of automobile toure, at all seasons of the year, and-on these trips, averaging over eight "days snob, be noveral from 60 to 125 miles per day, at an average speed of 95 miles an hour. A striking and invariable eff set is the increase in the red corpuscles of the blood, which in an anaemic individual was more than 8). per ount qu'an 8 days' tour. The general iolence is that of a stay in the mountalus at a height of 4000 to 6000 feet, and both normal and anaemic persons are affoted, though in different degree, Sleep and appetite are increased in all.
CAUSES OF CHOLERA.
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there have been many deaths but no foreigner We have had sons cholera in our city and has been attacked. Foreigners are not liable to get the disease from water as they are 80 careful of boiling and use bottled waters. scientifically proved that the garms of cholera, The great danger in flies. It has been typhoid, taberculoris are found on the legs and bodles. in the degestive trot and in the exore ment of flies. They are not dainty in their spots and light on your food. An afternoon tasto bat are fond of sweats. They leave ton with a table spread with onkes and sweets is mors of a mense, then a whole watermelon patch, if there should be cholers near by. Melons are dangerous because so sweet and well flavoured water or fly, contamination, that is if they as to attract flies. If they are eaten without
Chinese get most of their cholera from fies and are sat on the table, they are pretty safe. The frait and vegetables. It is a discase of poverty. from the protios of sprinkling dirty water on The
poor cannot always have whole fresh frait nor hot fresh food. They often sat out up or diseased fruit and stale hand and bass that countless die have contaminated. In the and the epidemie was musbating in spite of Spanish American war typhoid was very bid. accuring a perfect water supply. Files with lime on their bodies wore flying from the cesspools to the cock room tables, At one's the law of Moses was put into effeof. An armad sentinel was stationed to see that the soldiers the flies from getting at the filth, the source filled up the pita after being used so as to keep of infection. Immediately the epidemio was stayed. Ban Butler tried the law of Moses years before with a similar sqocess. In a cholera source of infection away from flise, but we can epidemio in the country, we can not cover the Avoid eating any thing that does not come to the table hot. Now the kitsheus are full of sweets &e, are spread around our sideboarda and mosquitoes have all the charteristics of the gods Lables to give the flies s 1est taste. Flies and that hosthen worship. The gods and the devils appeased by offerings. Flies and mosquitoes RIO supposed to cause disease and mast be really cause the disease and we unconsciously things. We are no more successful in our allow them to bare the first bite of our good tempt to propitiate them than the Chinese with their gods, bat gain additional disease,
The fragility of Incandescent gasmanțies is a seriens drawback to their age, but a more durable fabcio seems to have resulted at last from the experiments of German chemists, The maniles now so familiar have a tissue of cotton or ramie on which oxides of thorium and cerium have been precipitated. Attempts to use other natural fibers have failed, and the successful now material is an artificial silk made by dieselving bellalos in ammoniate of, and paddings, cakes, cold maits, sugars, copper. This silk mantle takes up thorium" nitrate, which ammonia ehanges in the Aber to hydroxide of thoriam. The thorium silk does Act absorb moisture like the old mantles, and it hee many times as great resistance to shock.
The camera's estimated record-i× 103,000,000 stats, but a British astronomer is to attempt notnal count, using & misroscopio gange in going over the several hundred plates, such with 20,000 to 200,000 stara
Cameras carried by kites have been long recognised as important for military and surveying purposes, and they have boon lately found useful in other ways, in getting piotures of large in lastria! plants. The ep peralus of a Now York company of photo. graphers consists of a series of aeroplanes for remoling the neosssary height, a device to hold the camera rigid, and an electrical-control- of the exposure. For exposares at a height of 1,000 feet, from 12 to 19. aeroplanes are used, each being 8 foot eqare with a wind surface of 6) square feet. They are sent up one after another until their combined pull litta 3,000 fest of cable with the camera and electrical appliances, and the top seroplane is prastically out of sight at a height of 8,000 feet then the camera rejohes its station at 1,000 feat above ground. The photographer' watches the camera through a field glass With Bogor upon an electriaal switch, he may await the favourable moment for 1 to 3 hours, but at the right lastsat ho presson-the battos, and the dropping of a tlay parashnte signals that a plate has been exposed. A 3- horse-power gasoline motor operates the cable,
Powdered sulphur mixed with oil is claimed to have frequently relieved hot bearings in teamship machinery, but a lubricant much stronger still is sulphuric acid. On one ocasion after repeated trouble from heating, the dilate "acid was allowed fod tp slowly apos-the working - bearing. In half an hour the part we cooled, When the roid was wasked out and the ordinary,
was applied. The cues was permanɛnt, Clothing of a late alleged
murderer at Middlesbrough, Eng, seemed to bear very faint stains. A jet of oxygen-gave the spots a ruddy bue, and several photographs by a colour-proosss- showed the blood-stains very distinctly in their ustural colour.
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