AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions
Public Anction,
2 opp, Esq, to Bell by
TO.MORROW (THURSDAY), the 11th February, 1909, at 11 a.M., at their Bales Rooms, No. 8. Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, BUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising:
Silk Tapestry-Covered DRAWING ROOM SUITE, TEAKWOOD OVERMANTELS with BEVELLED GLASS, MARBLE-TOP SIDEBOARD with GLASS. DINNEL WAGGONS GLASS, CROCKERY and E-P. WARE, ENGRAVINGS, WATER COLOURS and OIL PAINTINGS, TEAK- WOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLASS MARBLE TOP BUREAU
with
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 101N, 1909.
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HUGHES & HOUGH; Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 9th February, 1909.
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CARRIER PIGEON PHOTOGRAPH-THE
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produced are very glossy, strong and durable, being an advance over onlinary artificial kijkt, which is looking in, strength, especially when wet
PRESIDENT'S RIDE.
93 MILES IN 17 HOURS.
Besides serving as a letter carrier, the bou
Paul Revere's historie ride was eclipted last ing, pigeon has been made to do express mussen mouth by Mr. Poenovelt, who did a ninety-eight ger service by conveying medicines, and of late miles' spin on horseback in the rain oil sleet, Dr. Neubronner, a German experimenter, has just to show the disgruntled, sedentar alty been testing its possibilities as a military and navy officers that he has not been asking photographer. A special camera has been demore from them in the recent physics to thou
he vise!, taking picture 14 inches aquaro, and one ago, Mr. Roosevelt set a heartbreaking us in is willing to perform himself. A short time form of the apparatus uses is strip of film to pedestrianism for a coterie of stout and obtain eight of the bird's-eye views at definite sedentary officers, whom he led up hill and down intervals. The time of exposures can be reale, ulong hazardous river banks, and over
surging strains. gulated with much açenrasy.
Tu a strange
place, the pigeon begins its tight in a spiral pre, and thus would take pictures in several directions, giving information of the country and the enemy's quarters that might prove of great value in time of war. Flying homeward at a height of 150 to 300 feet, and a uniform speed of 40 miles an hour, the pigeon is fairly
safe from an enemy's bullets..
Any citizen who liked could follow the ro sidential train that time, but last montic's - gramme was kept a dark secret. The faithl used Nucleonic strategy in accounting for he Mr. Loch, Mr. Roosevelt's private secretary, master's forthcoming absence from home. Some thought that the President was way
way rabin't fishing; others imagined he
shooting: fed by Surgeon General Rixer, Dr. Grason, and but none suspected the real reason. AccoMIRE-
Captain Archibald Butt, his wiltry aŭdado, camp, the Pro idont left the White Horse at 3.40 . They dismounted at the same place at 8.30 p.m. The President was covered with ice and snow when he completed his ride, but otherwise he was perfectly tit. ninety miles in thros, days, and Mr. Rosevelt Army and Navy officers are required to ride
For fire-resisting doors; armoured wood is taking tha phiên of iron in British warehouses und factories. The armoured fire door is made of several thickness of seasoned pine boards, NBA Special Service of Cars will run plazed, tongued and grooved, and well nailed "VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY | between Post Office and the Cirons before and together, and is covered with tinned steel boot" in one day has beaten this task by eight miles.
(BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAŬEK.) PARTICULARS OF SALE OF
To be Sold hy
PUBLIC AUCTION.
On MONDAY,
the 15th day of February, 1909, at 12 o'clock Noox, by MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Bitte ut Victorin Hongkong kort und EING all that Pien or Parcel of ground
registered in the Land Office as the REMAIN- ING PORTION OF SECTION "O" OF
MARINE LOT NO. 71 together with the Meeuages or Tenements tharcou known as Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 8. Sutherland Street, Victoria aforesaid. The sail premises are held for the residue of the term of 999 years subject to the payment of the Crown Rent and to the por formance of the covenants in the Crown Lease of the whole of Marine Lot No. 71, reserved and contained.
For further particulars and Conditions of Sale apply to
MESSRS D'ALMADA & SMITH,
Solicitors for the Vendor
or to
MR. GEO. F. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1909.
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SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED SHOTS. From No. 10 to 888G. at: 36, 37 and $7.50 per 100, SPORTING. REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.
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COL. & LOVE." Manager,
ALEXANDRA CINEMATOGRAPH NO, 2. ZETLAND STREET CORNER OF
HOORAIN-ALI'S-NEAR CLOCK TOWER.
TO-NIGHT AND EVERY EVENING.
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These FILMS have NEVER been seen in ANY Cinematograph in Hongkong.
fitting close to the wood. Several hours of the Bercest hout simply carbonizes the outer layer of wood to the depth of a fraction of an inch. The door remains in place, and is vot, as the iron often is, warped and torn from its fastenings.
A motor car with the secret service men ex- perienced difficulty in keeping the President in sight, because the mods were so bad. Itt á Virginie village Mr. Roosevelt shook the hands of hundreds of people, and made an informal speciL. "What about Tillman's attack? queried one. "Forget it," replied Mr. Roose- Felt, laughingly: "He did his bost."
The great meteorite collection of the Imperial Natural History Museum at Vienna now has specimens from 615 different fails, the whole
FRENCH COCHIN CHINA. weighing about 33 tons. Of these meteorites, 232 are iron, 28 iron and stone, and 355 are stone. the 14th ult., said:
The Times Paris' correspondout writing ou SELECT PROGRAMME Prof. Berworth, of Vienna, has found strong
Faris, Jan. 14. similarity between meteoric iron and manu- In Colonial circles the first actions of M. ENTIRE
factured steel, and Wihnannstatten figures and Klobukowsky, the new Governor-General of other meteorite peculiarities ona be reproduced.
Indo-China, have been watched with close interest. The problem with which he has to The teeth are given little attention by play-deal has been thus stated to me by an authority sicians, but, if we are to credit a new work by Dr. said, from the obvious sud necessary reforms on French Colonial matters: "Apart," he Henry S.-Upson they may be regarded as which will, doubtless, need patience and firm n leading source of nerveta nad mental dorange- nous, M. Klobukowaky will have to show sym- ment. No disease is so common as dental caries, patay both towards the Conservatie spirit of which may occur without any local pain or sen- the majority of the native population and sation of any kind. It is often accompanied by in the direction of civilisation. Success
towards the aspirations of the educated minority is 'culy disordered nerve netion, and insomnia has been obtainable by such a fusion of these two tem- proven to be due to this cause. In severe cases, peraments as will prevent stagnation and where the defects wore shown only by skia.revolution alike," graphs, the sleeplessness vanished us soon as the carities were treated. Arterial disease often accompanies insomnia, and a man of 65 broke down after two years of the insomnis, and became paralysed, and yet he was relieved when his teeth were treated for disease made
Hours 9 to 11 r., ADMISSION $1.20, 50 cts, and 50 cis.
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known only by the X-rays. Melancholy has been cired by similor means,
Illuminated signs without sources of light form the carious invention of a French engineer, | who uses stray light raye, and makes it possible to appropriate our neighbour's lighting without stealing current froni his electric mains. The diffused light from street lasips, brilliant store windows and ordinary dsylight may be utilized. The rays are collected by raflecting mirrors and glass priems, and concentrated in a box bebini the transparent sign, which may be at consider. able disance away. The sigu glows so brilliantly that it is difficult to realize that there is not a powerful are lamp directly behind it.
The Temps to-night shows that the first note of M. Klobukowsky warrant confidence in the future. He has already suppressed certain of the fiscal injustices and shown his intention of exercising a protoutorate in the true sezine and of developing native administration at the same minority shall not swamp the representation of time, taking precautious that the advanced
the Conservative masses. The Temps part- icularly welomes the firmness with which he has insisted that his object is "the greatness of Indo-China indissolubly united to its protectress, France." It rejoices, too, at the clear warning given to the Annamites that the work of civilisa tion means the tightening, not the dissolution, of the banda between France and the Colony. "By bringing back the Annamites," says the Temps, "to a full conception of the reality of this statement, M. Klobukowsky will go far to terminate the propagation of dangerona dreams."
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