TO LET
TO: LET.
TO. 3, MORRISON HILL. Immediate
Noetry
Apply-
Hongkong, 10th December, 1999. [93
MESSES. JARDINE, MATHESON
& Co., LTD.
TO LET.
ODOWNS Nos. 7, & and 10, and the Top
Floor of No. 3, (Tang Lap Ting's
Godowns East Point).
Immediate Possession. Rent exceptionally moderate.
Apply to
KAM FOOK,
No. 107, Wellington Street, behind the Stag Hotel or Kaeper of
No. 6, Godown on the Spot. [93
Hongkong, 28th May, 1909.
TO LET.
"N No. 6, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
IONE GODOWN.
In No. 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Victoria Building, Booms suitable for Office.
ROOMS in College. Chambers No. 31 Wyndham Street.
DAVID BASSOON & Co, LTD. Hongkong, 19th December, 1909,
TO LET.
KINO'S BUILDYŃa9,
[95
FFICES facing the Harbour from about October at present in occupation of Messrs, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Ltr.
Apply-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENY CO., LD.
[89
Hongkong, lat January, 1910.
TO LET FURNISHED.
"JANTALLON," 125A, BARKER Road,
66ent $225 per Month.
appointment only.
Apply to
Seen by
[100
GODDARD & DOUGLAS. Hongkong, 9th December, 1909.
STORAGE.
FOR COAL, TIMBER, &C.
O BE LET, s Portion of MARINE LOT
for above Purpose. EXTENSIVE WATER FRONT. DEEP WATER.
Alac FOR SALE.
Tortions of MARINE LOTS Nos. 31 & 36 02 PRAYA EAST, Approximate AREA 43,000 SQUARE FT. 999 YEARS' LEASE.
For Particulars, apply---
GEO. FENWICK & Co., LTD. Jongkong, 8th June, 1906.
TO LET.
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NON ROAD, Bix Roomed House, with Outhouse, Commanding a Fine View of the Harbour.
TO. 2, ELLIOTT CRESCENT, ROBIN.
Apply to....
F. X. D'ALMADA CASTRO, 33, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 7th July, 1909.
TO LET.
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TO. 2, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, NTCONS
PREMISES Lately voted by Messrs Co., known as 21, Whitefield, Shauki-
SISES at SHAMEEN, Canton, now in
of the Canton Kowloon Railway.
DAXTONDAL (furnished), No, 100, Pask,
to October, 1910.
AYRIE, No. 13, Peak, Sir Rooms, Court and very Large Garden.
ACONSFIELL ARCADE, 2 Rooms on
oor, well suited for Olioa.
25, SHELLEY STREET (ney House); ODOWNS in Duddell Street.
OUSES in HELILIOS TERRACE, BINGON ROAD, newly painted and color
aked, exceptionally cheay rentals,"
FOR SALE. TOR CREST, at Peak, com. anding a Magnificent View of the Harbour nd Adjacent Islands,
Apply to-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 15th December, 1909. [91
TO LET.
GODOWN, No. 4, Praya, Kenusdy Town.
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO. LD. Hongkong, 1st January, 1910.
TO BE LET.
[90
WITH Possession from March, 1910
(Unfurnished or if desired the furniture could be taken over at a valuation.)
"IAN-MOR." Peak Read. Biz Roomoď. semi detached houses, commanding a good view of the harbor. Tennis Court and Vegetable Garden.
NEW and COMMODIOUS SHOPS, Nathan Road, Kowloon. Immediata Possession. Cheap Rentals.
KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48, Yaumati, Ares 85,200 square feet with 255 foot Sea Frontage. Especially suited for Storage Coal, Timber, &0.
Apply to-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. Hourkong, 1st December, 1909. [99-109
TO LET.
TOS. 52 and 69, CAINE ROAD.
Apply tom.
HO U MING, 81, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 8th December, 1909.
A
TO LET.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 3rd, 1910.
NAPIER JOHNSTONES' "SQUARE BOTTLE”
WHISKY.
BEWARE OF
UNVARIED FOR
THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN 1745-
150 YEARS.
IMITATIONS,
SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY, ELECTRIC BODY HEAT-WHALE MATIS THAT DEATH DOES NOT SEPARATE-PAPER CAR „ÍETE—AN - EABTEQUAKE ALABA-WOOD CASTING -VIBRATION IN MOVING PICTURE
A TOKET OF CARBONIC ACID-VOTING IN ONE SECONDLIGHT WITHOUT MATCHES. Hating the tissues of the body by the pas sage of very rapidly-alternating ourrents is the novel ides lately introduced into electrical therapeutics by Drx, ven Preys and von Bernd, of Vienas. In a process, called fulguration," physbians in France and elsewhere have been for some years using for modical purposes glow discharges from highly-charged induction coils, and the superficial burning or heating has hastened the healing of cancers after operation
the book for receiving votes, which are set in the form of heavy discs. As a diso drops, it is recorded in the corresponding section in the front of the machine, Votes may be cast rapidly, and totals are accurately slown with pat delay for counting. With about one vote a second, it is estimated that two machines- one for "ayos" and one for noea"- British House of Commons in six minutes. would record the 670 votes of the The vote of the stone masons of Milan on the question of a strike was taken within an hour,
The Solfita," a self-lighting role Ismp, makes a modern nao of the old fint and steel. Turning on water generates acetylane from the calcium carbide, and as soon as the emission is suficient, a trigger is reloased that semily shower of sparks across the barner, igniting and otherwise given good results. For the new the gas. The lighting device is simply a piece mothed, to be known as thermo-penetration, of flló steel arranged to produce sparks by strik Siemens and Halske have constructed a simpleng a piece of fit. combination of two coils that gives a current of very mpid oscillations and adjustable strength; The terminals are applied to the part of the
A correspondent writing to the Pall Mall body to be heated, so that the current flows into Gazelic, in reference to an articlo "Head- the body directly, instead of through an air-Hunting in Borneo," says spoo as in fulguration, and the internal temper ature is raised by resistance just as a lamp filament is heated: This is the first effective application for increasing bodily. temperature.
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A specics of whale that seems to cominit suicide Jas been brought to the notice of the Paris Academy of Belionco by Edmund Perrier. These whales are 16 feet long, have only two teath, and are so rare that only 28 have been known, only a single specimen having been pre- served. They come ashore only in pairs, and if either male or female in killed, the death of the other promptly follows.
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Mills for sptuning yarn from paper exist Germany and France, and another is being established in southern Sweden. The paper yarn seems to hatespecially adapted for rugs and carpots. Carpets from unspan paper tape ara being made nlready in Sweden, and Consul General E. D. Winslow reports that this home wovon product is apparently very satisfactory.
Tho zneasiness of animals before earthquakes has suggested to A. Maccioni, an Italian, that the nervous system may be affected by electric waves coming from earthquake centres a little in advance of the mechanical shooks. Aeting on this theory, he has devised a detector for such waves, using a coherer sensitive to all ware lengths, which is connected by wire to an upright metal plate in the ground, and is in eircuit with a battery and a sensitive galvano. meter or relay. When olostric waves from the earth are received, the relay closes the circuit of a strong battery ooting upon a registering mechanism, a clock and a ball. Recording the ordinary mechanical shocks by means of a very sensitive seismograph, two earthquake more ments were observed on April 11, and it was found that from a contre of disturbance fourteen miles away the electrio waves, were made known four minutes before the arrival of the mechanical waves. Though the new instra ment is being first applied to earthquake study, it should prove of life-saving value in giving warning of dangerous shocks.
"Melted wood," first produced 17 or 18 years ago, was forgotten after having been recorded as a scientific curiosity. Frucis Marre reporte that further experiments have been lately made in France, and that after the volatile substances have been distilled from wood chips, the fibroas skeleton and the mineral salte are hosted in ». boiler to 1,500 degrees F. fer two hours, in an atmosphere of somewhat compressed uitrogen. The exclusion of oxygen prevents combustion The mass thins obtained is hard and homogeneon, but the melting can be performed without draw. ing off the distillation products, and then the fased wood becomes a hard amorphous solid, with a fine grain, and taking a fine polish. The new material which can be cast and moulded and
be adapted to many uses.
PRINTING made indestructible by preservativos, seems to Nothing creates such a good impression in business as the use of First Class Printing. The difference in cost between good and bad printing and material is generally nil,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS"
PRINTING WORKS turn out the Best Printing at Reasonable Prices
TO LET
TO LET on FOR SALE. DERRINGTON, PEAK ROAD, No. 8, SHORNCLIFFE, Garden Bond, 7.
For Partionlare apply to-
C. SCHRÖTER, King's Buildings, LIIRD,, Care of Garrels, Brner & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1909. (86
No
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HOUSE in Wong Nei Chong Road,
A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE, OFFICES TO LET, No-2, Connaught Road, | 3rd Floor.
No. 3, CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Bond.
No 10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, 1st floor.
OFFICES in YORK BUILDING.
GODOWNS in PHATA EAST,
BLUR
BUILDINGS and No. 16B., Des Voeux Road
next to the HONGKONG HOTEL.
FLATS in MOBETON TERRACE.
Apply to-
TO LET.
102, OLD BAILEY.
from 1st December. Apply to
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Cq, 14, Des Viear Roed, Hongkong, 5th November, 1909. [97
TO LET.
The fatiguing effect of moving pistares thrown on a screen is not due to the passage of the film itself, but is produced by the shutter
motion of the film. The painful vibration ba that repeatedly cuts off the light during tre
been remedied by running the shutter motor four times ax-fast, cutting off the light 56 times a second instead of 14.
A Franch coal mine has been remarkable for its emissions of carbon dioxide. The most violent entrash occurred in July, 1907, immediately followed the explosion of five pounds of dynamite in eight blasts in a somm of coal at the bottom of a shaft 1,000 foot deep. Dost in great quantities was thrown ont for an hour and a half, the outflow of gas con- tinuing twelve hours. Three workmen were suffocated, occupants of neighbouring houses showed symptoms of asphyria, and over au Possession ares of country about 3,300 feet long and 1,600 foot wide, chickens, dogs and birds wore killed by the gas. From the surface of the ground 523 tons of very fine coal dust were collected, the wind having probably carried away as much more. The dust covered the machinerom, sixty foot from the mouth of the shaft, to dre depth of a yard; and penetrated to workings50) feet from the shaft. From the, various galleries of the min nearly 3,000 tons of coal dust were taken. The coal seam pene trated was about sixty feet tluck, and the great quantity of gas liberited has been attributed to this unusual thickness and the large area covered by the simultaneous blasts.
GODOWN, No. 5a, DUDDELD STREET.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st January, 1910.
(88
TO LET.
BRIGHT AIRY ROOM, suitable for Enquire at Chinese Central Y.M.C.A
Entry under arrangement. Hongkong, 30th December, 1909.
A BRIG
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, let: January, 1910.
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that has been attracting much favour in Italy, it about two feet and a half high, and has slots in
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of head-hunting" undoubtedly did exist to a Forty or fifty years ago, the "barbaric " cult great extent among the Dyaks, although even then I believe that the picturesque preliminarier described by the authority from whom yon
for many years lauk. As these tribes depicted. They certainly do not exist now, nor poculiar to Sarawak, and to Barawak alone, of place from one who lived among them Ferhaps a word or two may not be out some twenty or thirty years ago; and who has kept in touch with the country ever since. bo called for, to refer to the gallant and self- It is possibly ancient history, but it seems to sacrificing work of Sir James Brooke, the first Rajsh of Sarawak, who more than fifty years ago had a three-to-one battle to fight. On the. tribes in the interior, who were head-hunters. one hand wore the ill-guided and turbulent OB
the other were the Mainy, lanom, and Sulu pirates, who pressed the Sea-Dysks into their service, and who swept the shores and rivers of the land, which had been confided to spradations were not locally confined to his chargo by the Sultan of Bruni. Their villages and native shipping generally, but stere an ordinary risk by Hritish and other shipping passing Chimward through the Struits and obstacle in the path was to be found in the Islands. The third. and the
greatest English Parliament, whers, even in those days, there were, men (may their names sink into oblivion) not ashamed to make prejudiced sud ill-informed attacks on an absent man. It would be too high a compliment to pall such that the name of Sir James Brooke will stand attacks generous. It is, surely, sufficient out clear in British history when those of his calumniators have vanished from memory. while recalling to the memories of some of It might, in theso hurried days, be worth your readers that not much more than half a century ago piracy in the Straits, among the Islands there, and in the China Seas, was not of rare occurrence; and that the extinction effected by the first Rajah of Sarawak. · Ho of this Bocialistic programme" was mainly. had the willing and friendly assistance of the late Admiral Sir Harry Keppel, and also of imagine, if alertness and courage carry value, Admiral Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, who, I and if opportunity offered, would be as ready to day to broak up a piratical fleet as he was to clanr Bins Bay and the Tonquin River in 1849. and almost patriarchal, rule of the present For many years back the firi, bonevolent, Rajah-who, however, has done his full share of the necessary fighting in earlier time-has brought his country into a condition of order, which, I venture to say, is unsurpassed either peace, prosperity, and contented happiness, in Great Britain and Troland or in any other part of the British Empire.
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It is distinguished from others by the case with which it can be digested and absorbed. It can be served
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HE Steamship
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby
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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, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 6th Jan, at 9.30A.M.
AB Claims must reach us before the 13th Jan., or they will not be recognized.
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THE BANK LINE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "SUVERIC,"
FROM SEATTLE, TACOMA, VAN. COUVER, YOKOHAMA, KOBE
AND MOJI
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THE sbore Steamer having arrived, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to sand in their Bills of Lading for countersigns ture and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees risk and expense.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in
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714
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