Page
NAPIER JOHNSTONES' "SQUARE BOTTLE
WHISKY.
BEWARE OF
NOTES AND NEWS.
£6,300 FOR A TIOTUBE,
At a sale of pistares at New York on Marsh 11th, Corst's Danse den Amoura fetched 831,000 (about £6,300),twitt
A. BOTANICAL PROBLEM.
Strait, was covered to a depth of 32 yards with In 1883 the island of Krakatos, in the Sunds lava by a tremendoas volcano cutburst. An interesting botanical problem was suggested Here was an area of new rock absolutely devoid of plant Hte. How would it be re-conquered and
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 4TH, 1910.
CHINA'S NEW NAVY AND
THE
TE COST
A
It was without substantial reason that the Chinese Naval Commissioners who recently visited England and one or two other European tands adopted a strictly non-committal attitude when asked if orders for warships were, shortly of the purse, Indeed, so the Instability of to be placed by China. They lacked the power China's financial system becomes more apparent Chinese and Europeana in Chins miso-are commenting strongly on the felly of sending herself an expensive mission to Europe to study naval to setting her financial house in order.
mission, headed, as is well known, The naval by Prince Tsai Haan, is already dus back in Peking
The commissioners will find that, while the idea of a new and powerful Chiness Navy still holds the popular lugination, the Ministers at Peking aro hopelessly selding och other where the money for its construction is to come from
"«Thi” All Lady. McLaren, “compares the husband to a god, I do not deny their many
Church
golike qualite but I do not ok's man can aim to live the authority of God. If they do
It is a very curious thing that tho claim it, they don't get it. (Laughter.) should insist on these vows, for they cannot possibly be kept. In the Jewish ceremony the Roman Catholic oor Nonconformist forms of serie Wohol or word for all these there nothing of the kind, neither is thers churches can keep their vowel but a woman
Then there is this false vow:- married in the Church of England cannot do so.
With all my worldly goods Ithee endow.
The husband says that in the presence of truth. It is one great
repeopled by the vegetable world? Bo, at the mattars before China soxiously applied cod and the assembled company. It is not the
suggestion of Trenb, the luland has been kept under observation since 1886.
·LUCK AT MONIN QAELO. The French newspapers announce the ink at Monte Carlo of Miss Eleanor Alexander, the Bancée of Mr. Theodors Roosevelt, junior, The young lady, accompanied by her father, visited the Casino and requested him to put upon the number represuiting her birthday a consider,
UNVARIED FOR
THE SAME TO-DAY
150 YEARS.
IN 1745
IMITATIONS.
SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
Some amazing and characteristically Chiness
able яum. Heyeral notes of 1,000 feinos were so gons have been made to solve the .
deposited. Fortune favoured Miss Alexander, with the result, we learn, that she rose from the table the possessor of 500,000 francs, a nice little fortune of £20,000
during the past few weeks. Ons
is that the savings of the late Empress Dowager should be devoted to the Navy Fund, whereby one or two" men-of-war could be purchased Another is that every Chinaman SO THE QUEES'R AFTERNOON TELUG
abroad (this is bound to be popular in China) During the last month the Queen has con ahquld subscribe two dollars (roughly, 48.) to stantly received friends at Buckingham Palace the Navy Fund. Such a course, the promotors for aftemoon ten in her own private suite of this idon argue, would produce $10,000,000. of apartments. These were not even small This particular proposal awaits the considers- "parties," for (says Truth) Her Majesty caution of Prince Tsai Haum, to whom it has never see more than two guests at a time, and been referred. usually only on The Queen has fregnently gene out to ten with friends, but on these anggestion, that the home-keeping Chinese are.
It must not be thought, in view of this latter
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., asions no guest has been invited to meet Her shirking their responsibilities. On the contrary,
Majesty, who has usually been received by bar and from ALL WIFE MEnchants, [46 hostess only. The Queen profors-a-tête-à-tête
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
8.8. "OCEANIEN," COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex from #.. "Charente" and "Medco Harre szeg." Charents" from Bordeaux ex ns. Villed Aarraş," in connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods. with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valu- ables are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardous and or extra, hazardous Go- downs of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, hence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Carge will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees balore Noor To-DAY, requesting it to be landed here.
2.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after the 4th April, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing chargos S
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 5th April, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on the 4th April, at 3 a P.M
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
P. THOMAS,
Agent
Hongkong, 28th March, 1910,
[2.
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM ANTWERP, HULL, LONDON AND STRAITS.
THE Steamship
HE
“GLENROY," Captain Holman, having arrived from the above Porte, Consignes of Cargo are hereby in- formed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Ltd. Kowloon, and stored of Consignees risk and
expense.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods pro to be left in the Godowns, where they will be ex amined on TUESDAY, the 5th April, at 3 P.M.
All claims must be presented within fifteen days of the steamer's arrival hare, after which date they cannot be recognited.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 5th April will be subject
to rentgrad
Ne Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMÈS & Co.,
Agents
Hongkong, 30th March, 1910.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITE.
THE
[473
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"ASSATE.” Consignees of Cargo by the above-narzed vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEM BISE in the
Godowns
Kowloon, when each Consigament will be sorted at Merk by Mark And delivery can be obtained as soon as the -Goods are landed."* **¦-
Katany B
on such occasions. Ag
A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY, The Society of Medicine of Berlin reports remarkable triumph of the surgeon's skill The prootitioner in question in Dr. Katzenstein. He had patient nader his care suffering from sa attack of paralysis following an accident, the shoulder muscles refusing to perform their func- tions. Dr. Katzenstein, we are told, removed corresponding muscles from the lower part of the patient's back and transferred them to the The orperiment has completely succeeded, and the patient is able to-day to use hin arma with the sama qasə as formerly.
shoulder.
ANTHE MATRIC BYBERMER With referance to the announcement retently made in the Globe that on the first of next month the people of Denmark will adopt the metric system, it may be mentioned that the system is obligatory in Germany, Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chili, Colombia, Equador, Greece, Italy, Mexics, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Reu- mania, Berria, Spain, Switzerland, and Venezuela. The system is permissive in Egypt, the United States, Russie, Japan, Turkey, and Great Britain, although with us the proposed change has not been received kindly, but it is generally used among men of science.
|| ・・ A WIFE'S DUTY
A clergyman, noticing the simple. apperence of the ocuple he had just married, decided to give them a few words of advice, according to Spare Moments. He explained to the young man his duties as a husband, and then told the young Indy how site should conduct herself, winding up with the old injunction that she
must look to her husband for everything, and,
there le evidence of an earnest desire to support the Government in establishing anefficient Navy, and Tientain students, for example, recently telegraphed subscriptions to the Navy Fund amounting
to 50,000 teels-a tael being worth about 24. 4.). It might be added here, too, that the announcement was rooently made in Feking that Prince Teal Haan had telegraphed from Europe a subscription of like amount to the same fand
These, however, are but small items towards the 26,000,000 tsels estimated as the initiat expenditure for the now Nary scheme: which, it is interesting to recall, is said to include three craisers, two training ships, ony gunboat, and two destroyers; the construction of a large new
naval base; the establishment of one or two. naval stations and naval schools. Where is the money to come from?, is the wail even of responsible officials at Faking, who now perceive the mistake they made in committing them- selves to the scheme with more enthusiasm and show of patriotism than statesmanlike discretion. There is something of the comic opers stuge. phere about a paragraph in one of the Chinese papers, which states that the President of the Board of Revento has lately been asking the various Ministries where funds for the Navy are to be obtained, "So far," adds our contempor ary, he has received no reply.”
According to Chinese reports, the British Minister at Peking has recommanded the Chinese Foreign Offer to secure two English naval experts as advisers, but that matter also
to by left to Prince Tasi Heun; and, in visw of the growing power of the reactionaries at Faking, and the disinclination to call in the help of foreigners, it is pretty certain that the Prince has had his book prepared for him on that subject
One may be allowed to emphasize the business
"It'
no other word for eat themplag be. There is The meeting agreed to protest, and call upon the Bishops to remove these objectionable state testa trom the Marriage Service. The meet- be amended to ma to entitle either party to s ing also agreed thot the law of divorce should divoros on the ground of unfaithfulness alone.
WHITELEY'S
THE BIGGEST STORE IN THE WORLD.
HIGH QUALITY." MODERATE PRICOR
MY PROMPT ATTENTION, AN General Mugzfáted Catalogun (inse y any Departmental List dele Zhen in Stone;
WM. WHITELEY Ltd. UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS, WESTBOURNE GROVE & QUEEN'S RD., LONDON, W.
81
AS SUPPlied to the HousE OF LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THORNE'S
OLD VAT
ZIG VAR VAS MANTED BY VHS LATE'SOBERY NODE CHP İNFIGURING AND KAS BEEN SOLD AS MP4 DICE
of One May be but one of many mattos showing SCOTCH WHISKY.
forsaking father and mother, follow him the lack of a real leader in China. Vary Boon wherever he want. The bride appeared very mach troubled at skin, and faltered out: Must now, John Chinaman will be taking annual stook I follow him to every place he goes of himself, his New Year happening some weeks after ours. It has been the first year of the said the clergyman: "you must follow him Prince Regent on trial-the first year for some everywhere until death doth you part." decades that a woman's hand has not stored the
Gracious!" aried the girl. "If I had known that before I would never have married a post ship of State; and the result is not compliment ary, speaking generally, to the stronger Box We have learned how great was the power of the dead Empress Dowager; how strong her ale; hor fearlessly she controlled warring factions; and the joke that she was "the only man in China" has been demonstrated as a fact.
ManTM
QUEENS WHO SMOKE.
According to a Paris journal, the new Queen of the Belgians is a lover of the Egyptian cigarette. The Queen Mother of Spain asad to urge the Ambassadors to smoke in her presence when Regeat of the kingdom, her Majesty being a good smoker herself. On the other hand, the late Queen Victoris had a great objection to tobacco. The German Empress tolerates smoke, for her lord is great smoker-cigarettes cigars, and even the old phins howl pipa Queen Marguerite in the time of King Humbert used often to set the example among the palace guests Perhaps there is no country where lading of high degree smoke so generally as they do in Russia. The Empress, unlike her mother in-law, has forbidden ladies in her presence to indulge in nicotine.
BAROENESIS OF A BERTUH...
No one denies the sincerity, honesty, and. earnestness of purpose of the Prince Regent hat he is not fitted, either by character or training, to rule. And those optimistic sino- logoes who talked of daybreak everywhere when the evil influence of the Empress Dowager was no more are admitting their error with increasing disappointment. The Prince Regent had a grand chance to clear the palace of the office-seakers and reactionaries, Instead, two of the enlightened statesmen-Yun Shi Kai and Tuan Fang-have been degraded, and the court is as much the home of corruption as ever, Chinese credit is no better, and possibly worse, than before, At Peking resollón is in full bring, and foreigners need look for little grace. The anti-foreign feeling was well represented in the boycott during the year of British wagels on the Yangtze, and the arrogant attitude of China towards Portugal in the Macao delimitation of boundaries negotiations, the dead- lock in which by the wa at this moment threatening serious consequences. Of course, the Prince Regent has distinguished himself abolition of the pigtail! The things that matter
Alfred: Lestery of "Arcadians" fame, some years ago travelling as stage manager with & company playing a melodrams, one of the in aidents, in which was the entrance of scene hand, carrying a wing or something of the Hed. There was, on one partionlar evening, no one at hand to go on. Bo Lester grabbed the nearest thing he could flad and walked on As he passed the group of sators on the stage one by taking an iliterest in dress reform and the of them, according to London Opinion, "ohipped him, and an apt reply coming to his
a
The responsible European Press in Chins
on the instant Lester "chipped back. It he has avoided.
laugh," and the next night a few more words were exchanged on either alde, and the laughs grew louder and longer, until by the and of the tour the some-shifter's part, for which not a line, and most important of the poes. That, in an an abridged form, became The Boone Shifter," at which Palace audiences laughed heartily for many weeks.com da sain ne dady
DEBOLE AGENTS UN HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA.
A. S. WATSON & CO,LTD. ____
253
SANTAL MIDY
These tiny Capsules — superior to Copaiba, Cabobs, and Injec- tions — CURE the same dis seases as these drugs in 4 FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
without inconvenience.
BENGER'S
A Food of great nukriživé: value which can be made suitable for any degree of th digestive power by the simplo process of letting it stand for a longer or shorter porlod at one stage of its preparation. When strength is returning after illness, a carefully regulated and increasing amount of exercise for the digestive functions beneficial. Benger's Food is the only food which can be pre- pared so as to give the stomach this regulated amount of work
Benger's Food is seld in Tins by Chemisis, &c, eve
BY APPOINTMENT TO
HIS MAJESTY THE KINO.
BOVRIL
Tempts you to Eat and Feeds you.
Whether at home, at the office, in the
taurant, or in the theatre, a
cup of Bovril is easily and quickly procured.
ALWAYS INSIST UPON BOYRIL, AND SEE THAT YOU GET IT.
DINNEFORD'S
The Universal Remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Sour
Eruotations, Bilique Affections.
WINCARNIS
DINNEFORDS MAGNESIA
The Physician's Ours for Gent, Rheumate Gout and Gravel.
Safest and most Effective Aparian
Begular Use,
MAGNESIA
COLEMAN'S
WINCARNIS,
THE GREATEST TONIC IN THE WORLD.
WHAT IT has done for OTHERS it will DO FOR YOU It refreshing and exhilarating effects are a revelation to those who have never tried it before *WINCARNIS" has a charm all its own, which you
cannot fall to appreciate.3
The combination of all that is most nourishing in Beef and Malt is prepared in Wincarnis gives a TWO-POWER STANDARD that cannot be equalled for giving Strength and Stamina, Vitality and Force to Mon,Women, and Children
BUY IT TO-DAY
From any
leading Chamist.
MUSTARD & COMPANY.
Wholesale Distributors for China and Hongkong:
No. 22, Museum Boad, Corner of Booshow Road, Shanghal. [257,
BEWARE OF IMPURE WATER.
Bach Capsule bears the name, ada Paris, 8, rue Viviennes
Sold by all Chemists.
鞎新外 中港香
HƯNG N GỌI SAN BO,
PUBLISHED DAILY.
and Kowloon Wharf and Godown originally, had been written, was the longest control, and sympathetic, but far-sesing, dires (Chinese Daily Press),
This vessel brings on Cargo:
VIA DESDENT OF CLOTHES
The heritage of dress, as it appeals to the biologist and the archeologist, was the subject of Mr. W. M. Webb's lecture to the Selborne.
Hedo-
From London, &c., er s.a. "Mores." From Calcutta, ex 8.8. "Malta" and
"Somali" From Persian Gulf, ex B. L 8. N. and
many researches which had been carried B. & P.B. N. Co.'s Steamers Boniady recently at Burlington Houen Optional Goods will be landed here unless out by himself and ethers into the origin of instructions are given to the contrary within various articles of dross ranging from trousers to collar studs, and from the perforations in a lady's. to button on the back of a
6 hours
Goods not cleared by the 6th April, at 4 P., 1 13
I be subject to rent... No Fire Insurance will be affected any case whatever.
by me in
laments the failure of the Prince Regent, for China sorely needs a strong man taiting. Forces of reform are at work within which require tion; forces of reaction are also at work requiring restraint and strong handling. The Provincial Assemblies have opened a new Is avenue of expression of public opinion--but there is no loader, at Faking. The people re example of vigorous reformi quire au policy, and their ruler talks of dress reform and
Pall Mall Gazette. pigtails!
MARRIAGE YOWS. womEN ARK REFORM OF THE CHURCH SERTION. Lady MoLama submitted proposals regarding
open work stock bb explained how fashions the rights and liberties of women to a meeting. frock dost were perpetuated by the gradual acquisition of of Liberal Women of Lancashire and Cheshire, Damaged packages manet be left in the gentleman's cast-off clothes by his zervants, held in Manchester on March 10th. The A powdered footman of to-day was nearing the Women's Charter, as it is called, contains Godowns for examination by the Consignes's costume of a gentleman of George II's time, anggested reforms which ars to be embodied in and the Company's representative and the Lord Mayor's coachman now was dressed fifteen or sixteen Bills and presented to the appointed hour. All Claims must be presented exactly like a nobleman of the time of George Henso of Commons within ten days of the steamer's arrival hare, TII. A page boy, with his three rows of but-
One of the proposals Lady Melaran miskes after which date they cannot be recognised toms wore what was known in the early yeave of is that the House of Commons shall be No Claims will be admitted after the Goods last century as the Dutch skeleton dress," asked to request the Bishops of the Church have left the. Godowns.
very fashionable suit for sons of the upper of England, in Convocation, to drawup
with E. A HEWETT, classes. The reasons for horseshoe baing con-new mariage service in sccordance
Superintendent
sidered lucky were explained. The half-moon was womanly dignity and legal frath Lady Hongkong, 31st March, 1910.
supposed to be a protection against the evil eye, MeLaren, in submitting this proposal, said and the tape of a horse-shoe distinctly suggested There is no doubt of the inferior position of women in this country, and we think the reason ON SALE, wo are so treated by the working and other clagsar is because the Church, and especially the OTICE THIS COAL can only be
Son Charohi marriage service, encourages anch Nobtained from Tu LARTIAL COLL FIRLDS CO., LD, who are prepared to Supply B WEEKLY PRESS. July to December, of England say
ROUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG treatment. The marriage service of the Church FRESH COAL straight from the inee Steamers load at the Wharves. Quick despatch 1909 With INDEX. Price $7.50. Telegrams: "Labor Labuan."
LABUAN COAL
[1
BRADLEY & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th August, 1909.
crescent
7
On sale at the "Hoлozore DAILY PRES Hongkong, 29th January, 1910,
Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands
as unto the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Churph
Advertising medium among the the oldest and still immeasurably the best
Native Community.
Etablished for over FIFTY YEARS Circulates largely throughout Southern Chine Indo-China, ets.
Terms for Advertising (Translation free) on be obtained at the Ofoe, 10A, Des Voeux Road Coutral, Hongkong: 131, Fleet Street, London or from the different Agents.
Dornments translated from or into Classics or Colloquin Chinese-
"PRANA" Sparklet Syphons
enable you to produce the purest,
freshest Sode Water obtainable.
SAFER AND CHEAPER
SOLD BY ALL STORES. §
SYPHONS... at $2.00 each.
BULBS........at 0.90 per box.
WHOLESALE BUYERS:
Can obtain at London price from
KWONG SANG HONG, LTD.
WHOLESALE AGENTS, 246 and 248, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong.
4811
Healthy Children
ON SALE.
THE FIFTY YEARS
ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR
日歴英中年十五
FROM 187 JANUARY, 1864 TO 3ter. Do
1913, BEING FROM THE 15T YEAR. “OITIE TOTH CYCLE TO THE ŠČTE YEAR OF TELE 76TH CYCLE.
PRICE $2 CASH.
On Sale at the "HONGKONG DAïzt Press” OFFICE, Or Agents in all the Parts of the Far East
The Book will be sent by Registered Port (free) to any part of the World unrepresented by Agante ou receipt of Money Order.
Can only be reared by giving suitable nourishment. If unable to feed your child, the proper substitute is a food that correspondil in all respects with human milk. The "Allenburys Milk Foods are so prepared as to remove the difference between. Cole's
They are alike suitable for the delicate and robust, and, when ased asr) milk and human milk, and are most easy of digestion.
directed, form the best means of rearing a child by hand. The No. 1 Mills Food may be given alternately with the natural food without fear of causing digestive disturbance.
ALLEN
The Allenburys Foods.
MILK FOOD. No. 1. From birth to 3 montha.
MILE FOOD NO. 2.. From 3 to 6 monDis
MALTED FOOD No. 3.
From 6 months and upwards.
A Pamphlet de Infant Feeding and Management, Free.
HANBURYS Ltd., 37, LOMBARD STREET, LONDON, E.C.