NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
THE
"PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH," having arrived, Consignees, of Cargo are hereby. informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opinm, Tressure and Valuables, are being Janded and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hamarãons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Golown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining. undelivered after the 6th Jan, will be subject to rent.
All broken claded, and, damaged Goods nre ta bo loft in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 6th Jan., at 9.30 A.M.'
All Claims must rouch us before the 10th Jan,
or they will not be recognized.
No Firo Insurance will be effected.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the undoraigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & Co., General Agente.
Hongkong, 30th December, 1908.
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BARBER" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
B.S.. "SURUGA,"
FROM NEW YORK AND STRAITS.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whsnce and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Cisins will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 6th Jan, will be subject -to-reut.
AB Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 30th Jan., or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
examined on the 6th Jan, at 3 p.m.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL & Co., ID,
Agents.
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Hongkong, 30th December, 1908.
THE OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO..
LIMITED,
AND
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo ex THE OCEAN STEAMSHIP and THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co' Steamers are hereby notified that on and
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1909.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.. By means of an ingenious combination of the atothoscope, microphone, phonograph and gal- ELECTRIC, FOWER. FROST TEB - BARTY—THE vanometer, & Dutch physiologist obtains a
PUSH OF SUNBIAMS —— BUNKEN
BIVERS photographic rocord of the heart-bests. It is EARTH claimed that the photograph not only shows the skillel operator when the heart is unsound but tells him the disease,
SAFE GUN-RADIUM AND BISTORY—A SNAKE'S LEGS—A BAD HADIT INVESTIGATED THE STREAKS OF THE MOON
HEART BEAT BECORDS.
Gront local differences in the electrification of the earth are known to exist, and a German- engineér suggests that with better knowledge it may be possible to make mining for electricity as profitable as digging for coal or metals. In experiments in two comparatively shallow borings. he has obtained weak currents between samall rod of brass or iron immersed in the
SHARE REPORT.
Mussre, Erich Georg & Co. in their weakly share list, dated the 31st December, 1903, say -- Since issue of our last roport Christmas holidays have intervened, and this week but little business has been transacted. The sterling demand rate of exchange on London closes at le. B, while rates on Shanghai are Tls. 75) for a Bank TT, and Tle. 757 for a 3 days sight private draft, the Bill being Tls. 753. Barsilver in Londen has advanced to 23 d., and "onsols are quoted £23. The Bank of England's rate of discount is 21 per cent. while the private rate of discount is 23 por cent.
digestible formwater of the pit and a similar roul buried near rate in Shanghai on this for 3 days sight Private
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after 1st JANUARY, 1909, all Cargo as the AB SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF Steamers will be landed into HOLT'S WHARF KOWLOON, which will be Open LORDS, AND HOUSE OF COMMONS. from that date to Receive and Store Cargo, For Storage Rates and other particulars,
Apply to
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the surface. He urges that contractors, mining companies and others take up the problem, and perform each exporimonts us testing the current between a 60-foot copper cylinder at the bottom of a boring of 3,000 fest or more 'and a similar cylinder baried in moist ground at the surface, also investigating the charges to be obtained from long iron pipes buried in the ground. It scems quite possible that means may be found for charging accumulators from earth currents, this giving us a new source of power, light and heat
BANK SHAKES-A for Hongkong and Shanghais sold at 8845, but more hams are on offer; the London rate have advanced to £82 10. Nationals are nnchanged.
tow MARINE INSURANCE SHABEZ,~Å Unions sold at 8835, at which figure shares are on offer. North hinas sold at Tls. 105 and continuo in request. Cantons have sellers at $195, while China Traders at $874, and Yang- The conclusion that light exerts prasure tezes at $167) are wanted.
FIRE INSURANCE SHARES. Hongkongs was reached by Clark, Maxwell 35 years ago, have been done at 325, but shares are offering.
are easier, and
been bat many attempts to measure the pressure hinas
$106 s gave only doubtful results. It was at last shown accepted.
SHIPPING SHARES-Hongkong, Canton and by Lebedew that in the tropics the sun's roy Moose have sellers at $291, Indos are an have a pressure of about threo pounds per changed here, in Shanghai Th. 37 has buen square mile. The sun's attraction apou the accepted, while the London rates ard £3 10s. for earth is millions of times greater, but the attrao-proference, and £11's. for deferred shares. tion acts upon the mass while the total radia China and Manilas aro weak at $14. Donglases tion pressure depends upon the surface exposed, changed hands at 833, and a few more shares can placed at that figure. Star Ferries, as well so that when matter is reduced to as dust the as Waterbosta show no change. Shell Trans- radiation pressure may exceed the attraction, ports have buyers at 47 shillings, the London. Thus it is that the sun's rays push the nebu rate liaving improved to 48 shillings. Lous tail of a comet away from the denser bead.sale at $112, and Jagous are weak with sellers REFINERIESA fow China Sagare are for
The submarine bed of the French river Adour has been followed by Prof. Edward Hall, F.R.8., 50 miles out, to as and that of the Congo he has traced 100 miles into the
orean.
be
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MINING SHARES - Charbonnages are nu changed. Raubs have seller at $8 Chinese. Engineering and Mining Co.'s shares are in demand at Tls, 173.
LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGs.The only changes are: Kowloon Lands have sellers at $33, and Hotels buyers at $84. No antes have been reported.
COTTON MILLS.--Shanghai quotes: Ewo's Tla. 76 buyers, Internationals Tls. 671 buyers, Loon Kung Mows Tls. 73 sellers, and Soeyehens Tls. 285 buyers, Hongkong Coltous have bayers at $9 and sellers at $10.
Docks, WHARVES, GODOWNS, &c.-There is nothing to report under this heading, except The electric gun, which shoots without powder that Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves have or projectile and is already a popular penny-in-to $43, and more shares can be placed. Shanghai been in some demand, resulting in sales at 834 the-slot toy in Paris, is not designed for warfare Dooks are quiet at Tle. 75. or hunting, but serves well target practice. The gun, which may be of any kind, is mounted on a special stand, while the special target is placed 20 or 25 yards or more away. The target is perforated with 19 holes in concentric circles and four outside holes for stray shots, and be. hind pach hole is an incandescent lamp in addi. lion to a bell at the contral hole. Each lamp is fed by a separate battery call having a contact button in a horizontal plate in the base of the stand When the gun points exactly to the | bull's-eye, a needle projecting downward is over the central button, but as the gun's position is shifted the needle is moved over other buttons, On pressing the trigger the needle is forced downward, the contact so made lighting up the lamp aimed at. The recklessness with which there guns are "fred" in public places arouses the indignation of the uninitiated, and there is constant dodging to avoid the bullets supposed to be flying in the air.
Hoobguizing uranium as the grandparent of | radium through the intermediate change to ionium, Proof. John Joly, in lús British Association address, showed that the trans- formation has been so slow that the maniam on earth has diminished scarcely gno, por sent, in 100,000,000 years, Theagh the heaviest element known, most of the nium is near the earth's surface. The radiom is widely scattered, and the oceans prova da contain about 20,000 tons, derived from the pranium brought down by rivers during the geological ages. The heat from radium at present may be making good all that the earth is radiating into space. This implies a very long past and future earth-life, and supporta geologists in their estimates that the world is much older than physicists have been willing to admit.
On dissecting a South American bon con striotor, 134 feet long, Capt. Musgrave has been
SCOTCH WHISKY, surprised to discover two radimentary logs, only
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Reading in bed, though a common pratico, is not usually commended. The reasons fordis. approval poem to have been not olearly understood, though it is known that with oil lamps there is serions, risk of fire-an objection that cannot be raised when daylight or the modern electric light is tised. Dr. Hugo Feilchenfeld, of Berlin, hae undertaken recently to determine, just how-if at all-the habit is harmful. Injury to the eyes proves to be the real danger, The light is often insufficient or in a positķa to dazzle, and the book is usually held too close and allom so that both eyes are used equally, Myopia and other defects are thus osused or increased. Young persons, whose eyes are not fully developel, are especially liable to be affected, and it is urged that boys and girls un der eighteen should never be permitted to read in bed. With increasing age, of course, the likelihood of inducing errors of refraction 15. lessened. Old and bed-ridden persone cannot well be denied the lasury of reading in bed, and for them the chance of harm can be made scall by attention to the quality and position of the
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The bright streaks radiating from centers on the moon-such as those from the craters Tycho and Copernicus-hare perplexed astronomers. H. G. Tomkins, a British astronomer, suggests that the rays represent extensive incrustations of alkali left as the water oveperated from. HRONICLE Solutions, and he finde liko incrustations in India, Persia and Africa. Radiations are pro- FOR 1909.
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SUNDRY MANUFACTURING COMPANIES.- Hongkong Electrios sold and have further enquiries at $18. Green Island Coments chang ed owners at 89.90 and 89.80 and have further sellers, at $9.90. Teos are obtainable at 8220. Bopeafetched $24, but more shares are obtainable. Other stocks under this heading without sales and unchanged.
MISCELLANEOUS.-China Providents. sold at 318 In other stocks nader this heading nothing has been done and rates are the same as reported last.
BURMA RICE CROP.
CHEERFUL FORECAST.
The summary of the forecast of the rice crop for November issued by the Department of Land Records says:-The area under rice cultivation in fiftoon principal rice producing districts is now reported to be 7,559,655 acres, actuale. The total follow area is 448.391 acros, an increase of 307,627 acres over last year's and the area destroyed by floods-29,953 soros--- is smaller than usual, Rain was inally heavy and continuous in November, and storms dame aged the standing rice crop in Arakan Division. Elsewhere rais seems to have done little harm. The harvesting of the winter rice crop is now commencing under normal conditions, and pros. pests are excellent. The provincial estimsta is 99. This is four points higher than last year, now reduced to 95 by when the estimate, was the revision of last y e figures in several districts. The surplus available for export last year was estimated at 2,485,000 tons of cargo rice, but revision of district average and outturn reduces the amount to about 2,450,000 tons of cargo rice. This year the surplus is estimated at 2,600,000 tons of cargo rice, equivalent to 45,536,723 cris, of clean ries,
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