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BEN AUCTION
PUBLIC AUOTION.
BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS
OP THE
WILL OF THE LATE MR. H. N. COOPER,
THE
VERY VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES
Situate and being Nus. 2, 4, 6, 6, 10, and 12, MosquE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
to ho sold by
PUBLIC AUCTION.
on
FRIDAY,
SCIENTIFIO. MISCELLANY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18rn, 1919.
CHEMICAL ¡FOOD AT LAST, The high cost of living may not be affected very soon, but there is great scientific interest in the announcement that Dr. Emil Abderhalden, of the University of Halle, has been able ta sustain life with purely synthetic or artificial food. Of the three classes of food substances now, recognized, the carbohydrates (sugars and starchios) and the fats simply supply heat and energy, It is the protein or nitrogenous material
the 30th day of August, 1912, at 12 o'clock | (flesh, egg albumen, etc.) that is indis
3
NOON.
IN SIX LOTS,
BY
MESSES. HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
At thoir Auction Rocis, at No. 8. Des Voeux Road, Central.
The Properties consist of:---
Last 1.-The piece of ground and pr mises thereon knowo na No. 12, Mosqui Street, with the appurtenances thereto
pensable for building up body tissue, and the famous Byntheses of Emil Fischer stopped just short of producing artificial protein. Dr. Abderhalden weerns to have overcome the difficulty by finding a way around it. In digestion the protein is
WM.
POWELL,
LTD.
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JAS. BUCHANAN & CO.'S
Red
Seal
CRASH
Tandona
EMBROIDERED
CUSHION CASES
and
TABLE COVERS.
LINEN and LACE
TOILET COVERS,
broken up into the amino acids, which in WHITE the body are converted into new forms of protein that feed the tissues, and it was
held for the resíduo of a term of 999 years (suggested that the amino acids might from the 1st Boptember, 1857, and registered in the Land Office as SUB- SECTION 2 or SECTION A OF IN- LAND LOT NO. 58, Together with a small strip of ground adjoining intended to be registered in the Land Office as SUB- SECTION 1 OF SECTION B OF IN- LAND LOT NO. 53.
-Total Area, 2004 square feet or there abouts.
Proportion of Crown Rent, 8400 per
ADD
Lot 2. The piece of ground and pre- uises thereon known as No, 10, Mosque Street, with the appurtenances thereto held for the residue of a term of 009 years from the 1st September, 1857, and intend- ed to be rogistered in the Land Office as SUBSECTION 1 or SECTION A or SUBSECTION 3, OF SECTION A or INLAND LOT No. 58, Together with a small strip of ground adjoining intended to be registered in the Taand Office as SUBSECTION 2 or SECTION B OF INLAND LOT. No. 18.
Total Area, 2,119 square feet or there- abouts.
Proportion of Crown Rent, 81.12 per
AIRM
Lot 3 The piece of ground and pro- mises thereon known as No. 8. Mosqui Street, with the appurtenanees thereto held for the residue of a term of 103 years from the 1st September, 1857, and intend, ed to be registered in the Land Office as THE REMAINING PORTION OF SECTION A OF SUBSECTION 3 or SECTION A OF INLAND LOT No. 68, Together with a small strip of ground adjoining intended to be registered in the Land Office as SUBSECTION 3 OF SEC- TION B OF INLAND LOT No. 58.
Total area. 2,157 square feet or there- abouts,
Proportion of Crown Rent, $1.32 per
sunum.
Lot 4-The piece of ground and pro mises thereon known as No. 6, Mosque Street, with the appurtenances thereto hold for the residue of a term of 998 years from the 1st September, 1887, and intend- ed to be registered in the Land Office as SECTION B OF SUBSECTION 3 or SECTION A OF INLAND LOT No. 58, Together with a small stri of ground adjoining intended to be registered in the Land Oce as SUBSECTION 4 or SEO. TION B OF INLAND LOP No. 35.
Total Area, 2180 square feet or there abouts.
serve as the starting point in feeding. The synthetic chemist had already made these products. So young dogs were fed with a mixture of amino acids to supply the constituents of protein, glucose in place of sugars, glycerine and fatty acids instead of the usual edible fate-these Bubstances being all artificially prepared. and the animals not only lived but thrived and grew.
A VANISHED BIRD'S REMAINS.
The great auk a century and more ago abounded on both sides of the North
Atlantic, ranging to the Arctic Circle and southward ́un the Western abore Massachusetts. It became extinct about
to
1844, and Edward Bidwell &nds that it is
now represented only by 80 existing skins. and 73 eggs. Two eggs sold in London the other day for 150 und 140 guînças- considerably lower prices than were had a few years ago,
AN AMPHIBIOUS BICYCLE,
A Turin marine bicycle is an ordinary wheel for land use, but for the water bas three floats--one on each side and one in front-with a trailing propeller driven by the pedals. It has been successfully tried the Fo and the canals of Venice.
NEW IRON-COATING PROCESS.
Three methods of giving iron and steel articles a protective coating of zino are already practised-hot galvanizing," or
into
molten plunging
zine; cold galvanizing," or electrolytic sine plating: nd "sherardiing," or heating with Commercial zine powder in a closed retort.
Lohmannizing" is a new process that has been patented by H. J. Lohmana. The articles are first cleaned in the usual pickling bath of sulphuric acid; then dipped into a solution of hydrochloric acid, mercuric chloride, and ammonium Proportion of Crown Rent, $1.29 perchloride, and, after drying, are finally Lot 8-The piece of ground and pre immersed in the molten protective metal, mises thereon known as No. 4, Mosque which has a temperature of 950deg. to Street, with the appurtenances thereto held for the residue of a term of 990 years 1,000deg. F. The effect of the first bath from the 1st September, 1867, and intend is said to
annum.
be the deposition of an
ad to be registered in the Land Office as amalgamating metal salt, completely SECTION OF SUBSECTION 3 OF covering the surface and filling the most SECTION A OF INLAND LOT No. 58, Together with a small strip of ground minute pores and cavities. This coating adjoining intended to be registered in the teads to form an amalgam with the pro- Land Office as SUBSECTION & OF SEC-tective metal, and as the temperature of TION B OF INLAND LOT No. 88.
Total Ares, 2,168 square feet or there abouts.
Proportion of Crown Rent, 1.28.per
annum.
articles immersed in the hot bath rises to 800deg., the mercury is given off, leaving the surface and pores open to receive the protective metal without exposure to Lot The piece of ground and pre- mises thereon known as No. 2. Mosque oxidizing influences. It is claimed that Street, with the appurtenances thereto this process, unlike the others, is adapted hold for the residue of a term of 890 year for depositing a wide range of coatings. from the 1st September, 1857, and intend- such as varying alloys of zinc, lead and ed to be registered in the Land Office as THE REMAINING PORTION OF SUB-tin, or the metals singly. SECTION 3 (or THE REMAINING PORTION) OF SECTION A or IN- LAND LOT No. 58. Together with a small strip of ground adjoining intended to be registered in the Land Office as THE REMAINING PORTION OF SECTION B OF INLAND LOT No. 68.
abouts.
Total Area, 2,851 square feet or there Proportion of Crown Rent, $1.63 por audum.
The Properties are sold subject to the right of way of adjoining owners along. the basement floors on the south side thereof.
The Sale Plan showing the above men tioned Lots may be inspected before the
Sale either at the Office of Messis. DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON,
1, Des Voeux Road, Central,
Vendors' Solicitors,.
or at the Office of Mesina, HUGHES & HOUGH, The Auctioneers:
[t Hongkong, 7th August, 1912.
MARTINIS
SAPIOL &STEEL
Wredati Piede foraŭisanagutaztákna. Sortie's Pilla
sly do may be admired. Rices who FLOOR meet theez, banan ühele cuor A mulă. Pomem mulk Lybra the World, ne poat, Teuwp_ #m STI, OY, Wii, KostkaSTINE, ZEL
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APIOLASTER!
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DECIDUOUS ROUTS.
desert plants, it Muat perennial appears, have two kinds of roots--one being permanent and the other being shed each year just as the leaves are dropped from plants of suspended winter activity. W. A. Cannou, of the Carnegic Institu-- tion's Desert Laboratory, atates that these deciduous rootlets appear near the sur- face of the soil at the beginning of the rainy season, and their purpose seems to be to increase the water absorption dur ing the season of maximum water supply. As the surface of the soil agair dries, these rootlets dry up and disappear.
DUST FROM OTHER WORLDS.
Plobald
SCOTCH WHISKIES.
THE POPULAR
BLACK
& WHITE
WHISKY
Royal
Household
Special
Liqueurs
SIDEBOARD CLOTHS, GARNER, QUELCH & Co.,
DUCHESS SETS.
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Houten's
cocoa
VAN HOLZER
CUBLİSOLUBLE,
GAYAT HAUTEU
As a precaution against the constant risk
of infection, remember that washing with
CALVERT'S
No. 5 Carbolic Soap
is a healthy habit, for either personal use or
it is not expensive. 470
household F
Local Dealer sell it.
CALVERT & CO., Manchester. Englund.
"As Sound as a Bell"
is a phrase suggestive al all-round Ütnesa. It denotes freedom from disease: robustness of constitution: muscular force; and mental energy and vigour, The "soundas abell" condition is bine most devoutly to be wished. and happily, it is not only pusɔlble but pany of attainment by most folk
Thanks To
the strengthening and invigorating qualities of the World's tamous medicine-BEECHAM'S PILLS. For three generations this remedy has been to allingmen and women a restable iieans of re-establishing the health and maintaining it to a superlative degree. There are thousands, to-day, who keep themselves “as sound me a beli" by taking
Beecham's Pills.
Sold every where to boxes price 914, (36 plis), dith (56 piltu) and 219 (168 plita).
CORE, COTTON FROM ROOTS.
SOLE AGENTS.
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**L NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
鹼水汽力過土
HOME MADE
MINERAL WATERS
—BETTER THAN
FACTORY-MADE.
Why continue purchasing factory.made Miners! Waters Make your own Mineral Waters at home at a cost of 90 at A DOZEN SYPHOKA. Then you
the water ig pure, and contains no disease germs. With the
'PRANA'
.KNOW
SPARKLET SYPHON
and a dozen Bulbs you can make a dozen Syphons of delicious Mineral Water, and the cast is less than if you buy factory-made Mineral Water. All Chemists and Stores sell 'PRANA SPARKLET SYFHONS AND BOLIS,
Price of SYPHON $2 cach, | BULBS 90 ots. per box.
WHOLESALE PRICH EYPHON per day
...$16.00 F.O.B. BULBS
per doa boxes. $ 8,00 F.O,B. KWONG SANG HONG, LTD., WHOLESALE AGENTS,
*246 and 248, Des Toni Road, Central, HONGKONG,
行發總
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steanship
THE
"KLEIST."
buring arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Tressure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowna, whence delivery may be obtained.
fatal Cargo will be forwarded on unless
is received from the Consignees before NooN TO-DAY requesting it to be lauded here.
No Claims will he admitted after the Goods hare left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 14th inst, will be anbjour.
to ront.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Gooda aro to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 14th inst., at 9.30 4.M.
All Chime must reach us before the 21st inst or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bille of Lading will be countersigned by the Vadersigned,
NORDDEUTSCHEú Lloyd,
MELCHERS & Co,
General Agente.
Hongkong, 7th August, 1912
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No speculativa propositions
temperature it will gradually change to An interesting new tropical product is the gray form, in the shape of powder, increasing in volume. Massive tin will become granular; the sheet metal may be the root cotton lately described by S. Kusanoj, a Japanese botanist. It is a fibrous covering of the roots of Fagara perforated by the disease spots. As the integrifoliola, an abundant plant of the temperature falls below about 65deg. F. Philippines, and especially of Botel the more rapid becomes the decay, and Tobago, an island near Formosa. The it is advised that tin be kept above that substance seems to be a kind of cork point. The granular gray tin produced tissue resembling the ordinary cork from the white metal is simply an The allotropic form, the original condition developed on the bark of trees. Ebres, of light straw colonx and silky being restored by melting. The decay can Chiefly to investigate the mysterious lustre, are very finc, soft and weak, and be brought about by infection, and a trace yellowish-grey dust of the upper air, blat are easily pulverized to a waxy powder. of gray powder brought into contact with collects in minuto quantities in the snow They are less hygroscopic than ordinary white tin speedily ects up charge-
largent, £400,000. Only principals or their of high mountains, a party representing cotton, having remarkable resistance to gradually spreading at the point of con- Smallest transactions considered, 240,000;
wetting by water. In Botel Tobago the tact. the French Academy of Sciences spentatives use the root cotton, for caulking
the Philippines it is Many preservatives of butter and representatives corresponded with; Agents three months of last summer near the boats, and in summit of Mont Blanc (15,400 feet). The employed for such purposes as stuffing margarina have been tested in Germany ignored. Booklet explaining how willions of Common salt alone advantages offered to borrowers and particulare dry, hot summer favoured an accumula pillows. Not least of the advantages of in a series of experiments by K. Fischer pounds sterling have already been invested; tion of the dust, so that some was this material as a possible article of com and O. Gruenert.
merce is the fact that it can be removed practically prevented decomposition of required, will be sent only to principale or their on application in Englieb, obtained. This appears to be "meteoric without injury to the roots, thus making the fat and casein, though it did not representatives,
absolutely stop all change, and specimens French, German or Spanish, to the-- duet," confirming the belief that earth cultivation simple.
containing three per cent, of salt wore in dust cannot rise to 12,000 feet
good condition for use after three months. Other specimens treated with benzoic acid, salicylic acid, boric acid, etc., up to one per cent., had rapidly become rancid.
or more
in calm weather, but further study is necessary to decide conclusively.
TIN DISEASE.
In his investigation of the disease of tin, Prof. Ernst Cohen has found that when the metallic tin is exposed to a low
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