Intimation.
WM. POWELL.
LIMITED.
"ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS," Dos. Voeux Road,
FURNISHING
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY APRIL 25, 1905.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
“HE Vadonignot have received instructions from the REDISTRAR, SUPREME COURT,
to hell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
TOMORROW,..
THE ROMANCE OF PAPER MAKING
I W. T. PALMER,
On the manufacture of paper has hinged the whole progress of civilization. Naltons have over graded in polat of entiate and power by their ability to produce and use this staple, The clumsy enscrolled brick of the Assyrian
vention, a lang succamalo, yet in perfect order of troughs and pulleys and coge, pf. felis and direne-sized wheels, of cold cylinders and Heam-heated ones. he material as it is carried org completely changes its nature. Stand a ing. Note also the walchfalnews of the man in moment by the machine and consider its work charge. He is ever tearing out small squares, which he weight in a delicate balance ; his eye in apon the colourings upon the volume which the machine is dealing with. Should any one of the various pipes fall in its'aupply"iba paper Paralans, the cambrous waxed tablets of unci- | is spoiled in comparison to the sample lying ent Greece, each carried these nations to the before the man in charge. Then, too, the hun- front of their nione savage compeers, but their | dred-foot-long monster needs perpetual atten. advancement is halting when compared with tfar, for unless it runs smoothly the product is the intellectual progress of the Egyptians, simply waste.
the 26th April, 1905, at Noce, at the Sam Yick races, the costly and scarce parchment of the
Coal Godowns, Mong-kok-trui,
ABOUT 1,100 TONS KAIPING COAL,. (balf Lump and half Stall), A Steam Launch will leave Blake Pier at 11,30 A‚M, 10 convey intending purchasers.
TERMS 1—As utomli
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers,
DEPARTMENT, Hongkong, 25th April, 1905,
(FIRST FLOOR BY LIFT.)
NOW ON SHOW.
TH
Intimations.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE:
in the CITY HALL, on SATURDAY, the ath, THE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS will be held April, 1995, at 3.30 P.M.
By Order
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course. tomekong, 14th April, 1005:000
1476
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
Intimations.
A SILLY SAYING.
"It is a common but silly opinion pravalllog among a certain class of people that the wome
lish physician. He further adds: "For remedy tastes, smells or hurts, the more efficacious it is." So says a well-known Eng-
example, let us consider and liver oil. As it is extracted from the fish this, cil is soʻoffenziva" to the taste and smell that almost everybody abhore it, and many cannot use it at all, no matter how badly they need it. Yet cod liver ollis one of the most valuable druge, in the world, and it is the greatest pity that we have not thus far been able to free it from those peculiarities which to seriously interfere with its usefulness." This was written years ago j the work of civilizing and redeeming, it how. ever has since bean triumphantly accom-
remedy called
[492 | Nile exhausted their powers were by them wird. So finefire the mashaasthat a hundres AN INTERIM BONUS of Twenty perplished; and as a leading ingredient in the
PUBLIC AUCTION. HE Undersigned have received instructions from P.A.SCHLUMBERGER, Esq, to sell by
-PUBLIC AUCTION,
TO-MORROW,
whole every day "medium for the record and interchange of thought was the easily prepared runs down into’a'transverse tank from which The water with paper particles in solution and convenient papyrus. The subjects, it emerges in a broad current" on to a finely which successive talented generations by the wore endless wire mat, which is moving for advanced to a marked!'degres. The priest and literati, even iba'leducated cikerer below them, of that far-off time possessed dich stores of various knowledge which modern research, from the vague borderland (to which it has with so much difficulty attained, can do little more than guess at. After the fall of
and sixty are found in a single square inch: the effect of these narrow intentices is that hu the wire runs on its forty feet level, the water on the surface, and by their own weight fall ebbs away. Thalliatiedots of material are left into a soft pulp. The fibres with which each mite is clothed knit themselves together, and. in all parts of the world (save perhaps Chinates the process of consolidation: After passing. the pressure of a flannel-covered roller comple. men again began to be dissatisfied that the this roller the fabric is strong enough to hold noblert acts of their times should be relegated together; it is carefully fed along felt blankets to the uncertainties of legend and ballad, so revolving at a slow speed, and then on to a new race of scribes began to live in the cylinder, twelve feet in diameter, revolving, and monasteries and courts of Europe. And perheated by steam. This dries the paper, which
A Splendid New, Lot of the 26th April, 1905, at 2.30 PM, within his Egypt, and the centuries of riot of barbarizm
LAMP
Pretty
AND
ELECTRIC- LIGHT
SHADES.
Highest Grade obtainable.
DAINTY TEA COSIES.
CHIC
TABLE COVERS.
ELEGANT LACE BEDSPREADS
with Pillow Shams to match.
A Large Selection of the Newest
ART
CRETONNES
AND
SATEENS.
CUSHION
COVERS
in large variety.
A range of Atkin's Patent
SAFETY
FILTERS.
Newest Patent
WRINGERS
from $8.50 to $15 each,
INSPECTION INVITED.
Wm. POWELL, Ld.
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 19th April, roof,
residence," Lyee-mun," The Peak,
THE WHOLE OF HIS
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
THEREIN CONTAINED),
Comprising:
1934
has been declared.
Cent, upon contributions for the year WARRANTS will be faced on the 3rd May,
By Order of the Board,
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C MONTAGUE EDF,' Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 13th April, 1905.
THE YANGTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
the oil retains all its wonderful curative pro-- parties with no bad smell or taste whatever. It is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil,, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphiles and Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry; creating a medicine of unequaled power for the diseases most prevalent and fatal among men, women and children. There is
Throat and Lung Troubles, Nervous Dys no other remedy to compare with it. It in- in Blood Impurities, Weakness, Loss of Flesh,
Slow Development to the young, it gives quick pepsia, Scrofulous. Affections," Thinness' and and certain relief and cure. Dr. G. C. Shannon, of Canada, says: "I shall continue its use with, I am sure, great advantage to my patients and satisfaction to myself" Has all the virtues of cod liver oil; none of its fanke. You may trust it fully it cannot disappoint or fail. Ons bottle convinces, Sold by all chemists.
TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DINING hapa previous to this desire for written is to the average eye almost a finished product A DIVIDEND at the Rate of Twenty-five creases the digestive power of the stomach and
TABLE, WHATNOTS, BRUSSEL'S CAR
PET; TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with GLASS. TEAKWOOD SINGLE, 120N BEDSTEADS, BLACK BOOK-CASES, WOOD CURIO STANDS, TOOLS, DIN NER SERVICE, COOKING STOVE,
BC &c.,
ALBO
histories, the copying of Holy Writ had been ships into the grand domains and concerns of carried on. The merging of minor chieftain the Emperors also had its influence on the increased necessity for writing, and as parch ment was so scarce the need for a medium began to be more felt. Thus paper One set of French-made BED ROOM began to be prepared from pulped rags, from straw, from the barks of various trees, so that when the science of printing was again evolved (the Egyptians possessed this secret in entirely ages before), a plentiful supply was available for the hand presses of Caxton, Wynkin de Worde, and their successor. The bistory of paper, and the record of its various influences on nations and individuals, from
FURNITURE,
Catalogues will be issued. TERHIAS usual,/.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
'Hongkong, 25th April, 1905,
M
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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́r. geo, p. LammeRT has received this point onward to the present day, is too
instructions to sell by
wide a subject for this skaịch, so again long ages are stepped across to reach the modern story of how paper is made.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
TO-MORROW,
the 26th day of April, 1905, at 3 P.M., at his Sales Roams.
The following VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,
aituate at Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, All that PIECE.or PARCEL OF GROUND situate at Victoria aforesaid registered in the Land Office as INLAND LOT No. 1666. Area 689 aquare feet. Term 75 years. Annual Crown Rent $11.00 together with the messuage thereon, known as No. 8, Po Hing Fong.
For further particulars and conditions of sale, apply to--`
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Bolicitors for the Mortgagees,
or to
GEO, P, LAMMERT," Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 15th April, 1905.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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Closer observation, however, shows that it Share, on the Paid-up Capital of the above per Cent, being Fifteen Dollars per face is rough and spongy, blurring at the touch Australin and China or the Hongkong and could not be written or printed upon: the sur.Association, has been declared payable in Taci at Exchange 73 at the Chartered Bank of India, Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai, on and after this date to Shareholders of record on the 1st April, 1905,
of ink.
hand. A liquid size of resin, china clay, The completing processes are now taken in and other ingredients in prepared, and the rea! of paper unwound to pass through it. If one side only is to be "faished" this is compara- tively simple, but for both sides to be treated the paper is conducted over a mate of tollera till it becomes difficult for the onlooker to AY where the real course of the web lies. Aßer sizing the paper is passed between hot rollers
steel tubes healed with steam-and comes out smooth and polished-fit for the pen or the press.. The hot roiler treatment is only used to contain classes of paper, for the pressure is sufficiens to make unsired paper retain ink without blurring.
paper six
Speaking commercially, paper if no longer The machine by which a reel made of rags. Within the last thirty years feet wide, and perhaps three-quarters of a mile four different staples have been used The long, is cut into sheets say 20 inches by 30 first was rage, then surat, a kind of bark inches in size, is worth watching. Along a bar use, and now wood pulp. The production of set twenty inches spart in front of them a brought from India waste Jute was out in at the top of the frame four circular knives are paper in these days is also a very different long blade is fixed on a shaft running from thing from that detailed by Berodotus in his wide to side of the machine. When the paper description of the Deltaic wonders. learned Greek tells how the men of the Nileblader divide it accurately, while the long The is fed in and the machine started, the circular swamps split the papyrus reeds and took blade revolves at a regulated speed so that of the most durable material Machinery journeyed round to the cutting polat again. from within the tough covering skin after'skin | when thirty inches of the ree! have run it has casting many thousands of pounds is found The deliberate motion of this knife when in every modern paper-mill; it is in charge of calling.s sixty inch sheet is in amusing con- skilled men. its functions are governed by trast to the whirlwind of slashes when pieces expert mechanics, the material is in charge of aboal ten inches long are going through. of capable chemists. Of course, that faxury The divided sheets are individually.examin of connoisseurs, hand-made paper, is still proad in some the colour'le' not quite even, a duced in antique implements and by time-small crass.makes another considered im- honoured methods.
perfect. These sheats are thrown aside, and Among the treas in a Norwegian deil men are sent back to a machine to be ground up, THE Undersiz ned have received instructions with axes in hand are moving: one steps in and afterwarde re-made. The perfect sheets front of this foot-thick sapling, and a tow are counted into reams, packed and marketed, powerful swinging strokes bring it down. The branches are rapidly lopped away and paper may be of interest. That tough paper Perbups a line on two special varieties of the trunk dragged to the water's edge. A with a muslin fabric apparently, interwoven, push and away the log in whirled seaward. used for, registered envelopes in our post. At the mouth of the river the number is offices, is made by pressing the muslin into diverted into a cross-channel, floated to the the balf-made paper as it passes round the Many of the logs from Norwegian forests, how traialog wire. What is called art paper is wharf and placed on board the vessel for export. huge steam cheat after the journey along the ever, and all those set aside in Canada for pa much used for some purposer-possessing TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DINING
per manufacture, are reduced to pulp at fact-sides of varying colour, say red and yellow, TABLE and CHAIRS, TEAKWOOD SIDEories by the shores of those countries. After green and white. Most of this is made by BOARD with BEVELLED GLASS, DINNER WAGGONS, CANTON CARVED BLACK-Pusing the North Sea the lumber boat arrives varnishing a yellow sheel red on one side WOOD CABINET, TEA TABLES MARBLE-TOP BLACKWOOD TABLE, STEEL ENGRAVINGS, JAPANESE SCREENS, DOUBLE and SINGLE BRASS- MOUNTED BEDSTEADS with WIRE and HAIR MATTRESSES, MARBLE TOP WASHSTANDS and BUREAU with BE- VELLED GLASS, DOUBLE TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with GLASS, &c., &c. &c.;
from E. H. HINDS Esq,, to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
FRIDAY,
the 18th April, 1905, at 2 PM, within his residence, Glenshiel," The Peak, THE WHOLE OF HIS VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising
ALBO
One COTTAGE PIANO, by M. F. Račhals & Co., Hamburg, One LADY'S and One GENT'S BICYCLES, One Eastman-Kodak CAMERA anda number of Scientific BOOKS, One IRON SAFE by Harris, Goodwin & Co., Birmingham and London
AND.
A Large Assortment of PLANTS in Pot. Catalogues will be issued. TEAMS AS usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 15th April, 1905.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 1st day of May, 1905, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Pubile Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Causeway Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong. for a term of 75 years, with the option of re- nowal at & GROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary
MeasuremsacL
LOCALITY.
ft. the the
w} Annual Rest
Upest Price,
| 129 | 400|14#} }} |10000 $94 1,000
Hongkong, 13d April, 1905,
toaded by steam cranes, is placed on railway At some English port, and here is cargo, un, trucks en route for the mille. The logs are thrown from the trucks into shallow ponds till
required for 214.
batch of baulks are in the grappling iron. They Now the appointed bour bas arrived, and a
are carried into the mills and by various ma- chiner sawn into small pieces. These are placed in huge boilers with quantities of sulphur and other solvents, and are kept at a high heat for many hours. The wonderful structure of cells and fibres has by that time been broken down; and the resultant mass, after being ground into fine fragments, is drained and pressed between damp rollers. The pulp as it comes through this process is formed into long sheets of the appearance of wat, neutral-tinted | Alanuel, it is also soft and yielding ja änger can be easily pushed through though the sheet is half an inch thick. Thus, in modern mills, the log is reduced to pulp in three or four dayaj formerly, when water was the only known | solvent, the operation took months to perform. Here let it be added that a portion of the world's wood pulp is not made into papers Papier mache, though in reality a distinct material, is often counterfeited by it, and most of our cards are pulped sheets pressed tough and thin, and covered with a glaze, which permits them to be written upon.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. S. JACKSON,
Shanghai, rzth April, 1935.
ΑΝ
WANTED.
Secretary.
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N EXPERT TYPEWRITER: Good
Salary to a Quick, Worker. JOHNSON, STOKES AND MASTER, Hongkong, 31st March, 1905,
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NOTICE TO SHIPPERS. THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, prepared, during suspension of their
to SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING
PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER. LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES
NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT- and CANADA in connection with the GREAT
TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Cos, OCEAN NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co.
pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE's For further Particulars, apply at the Com
BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road,
A. S. MIHARA,
Manager.
Hongkong, 17th March, 1905.
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LOVE de commerce, Axé de 39 ang
de nationalité Suisse, ayant déja occupé, d'importantesfonctions dana de grosses maisons, double, parlent couramment le Français, l'Al connaissant à fond de comptabilité en partie lemand, le Hollandais, l'italien et l'Anglais. désirerait une situation dans l'une des villes de
la côte de Chine.
Très bonnes références-Appointements: de L. V. an Journal "POpinion" de Saigon. 5 a 6,000 dollars per an. Ectire aux taillales
Saigon, le z Mars, 1905,
the first duplex papers were made by imposing
an easy matter with proper machinery, but TH
their half made state, and pressing them two distinct sheets on top of one another in
together.-Ex
COMMERCIAL.
TO-DAY'S EXCHANDE. Sailing.
1.911 140)
Londoo-Bank "T.T.
saras spankemmel 10 7/16 Do. demand..........and moon] [of Do months' sight. France-Bank T.T. den ma................................2.35 |-· America-Bank T.T......451 Germany-Bank T:Tez India T.Te siden mun
Da-demand Shanghai-Back T.T. Japan-Bank T.T. lava-Back T.T. mayin
Buying
CAFE WEISMANN.
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HE Public are invited to pay a visit to
TIFFIN ROOMA
--Dur new
The only place of its kind in Hongkong.
A VERITABLE FAIRY LAND.
'REAL GERMAN BASS BEER ON DRAUGHT,
Entrance-
#
NO. LA, WYNDHAM STREET. · Hongkong, 22nd April, 1905..
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THE WISE MAN
BUYS A "SINGER"; IT'S TRUE ECONOMY.
...........................................140 YEAR GUARANTEE}
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EASY PAYMENTS. It's something you need.
SHOW-ROOMS, WYBDHAM STREET, Hongkong, 15th March, 1905, . [48.
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THE REAL THING AT LAST.
so days' sight Sydney and Melbourne...../
maths sight Francs.............2.39 USSELL'S PURE RICH THICK CREAM which, by the bye, is always known by the "GOLDEN BUTTERFLY
6 months' sight ...............240}
The pulp to be converted into paper is egalo || e months' sight Germany Gorjan 96 on the tin, keeps excellently anywhere and ground up-for hours this time-with a large Bar Silver „pus
OPIUM QUOTATIONS.
126 7/16 everywhere. When opened, it is as fresh and
quantity of water intermixed. The current of Bank of England rats.2% pulp and water is forced round and round an elliptical tank, passing into the beater”--- shaped like the paddie-box of an antiquated steamer on each journey. After hundreds of such passages the breaker fails to make any
further impression on the particles, which are spotations are as follows
a New
Old ag Older Oldest
then pumped away to another machine, where | constant stream of water clears away all im purities, chance lamps, etc. If the paper la ta be coloured a quantity of strong aclline dye is mixed with it at this stage, Now, in turgid | Patna Now streams, the paper runs down towards the Bazares New "making machine." This is a wonderful In! | Persian (F»
Fer pico!
@-1,180. © 1,150`
فرود
Par chest,
1,153-
70/919
weet as though it had just been skimmed from the freshest dairy milk,
11
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.,
PIANO AND ORGAN MANUFACTURERS.
14, QUEEN'S ROAD, FIRST FLOOR LIAVE just received a shipment of second nos from $200 upwards, and a wrillen guarantee for a test period of TWO Years given for each lostrument.
in China. Inspection solicited. Our work
A large consigament of records at the low figure at $1,80 each, 5, on wholesale orders.
men are experienced men.
The largest and most varied Stock of Music
WE DEFY COMPETITION, INSPECTION INVITED, Hongkong, 14th March, 1905,
THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
RADE
BARRETTO & Cai General Agents; Hongkong,
GUINNESS'S STOUT.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND
STOUT is the Finest Bottling of Guinness's Stout. #THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"
in the very Finest Stout brewed by Moses. A. Guinness, Son & Co., Dublin,
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"
is not medicated nor chemicalized.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND*~
-STOUT" Consumers wishing to drink perfectly pure Stout of the very finest quality should drink Pig Brand Stopt.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"
Pig Brand Stout is better bottled, better packed, and has stronger packages than its rivals, -
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRANDI STOUT"
*
Pig Brand Stout gently assiste dipüstion, "THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND. STOUT," Fig Brand Stont is a food as well as a drink,
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT." Fig Brand Stout may be recommended by medical men to their mort delicate patients.. "THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND
Pig
Nothing but praise has been received from those who haya fad it,
Pig
NO PRESERVATIVE OF ANY KIND IS USED.
E THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED.
Fuller particulars, prices, booklets and amplesion,application,
BOLE AGENTI➡
HE BUTTONJEE,
f, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong,
-37, Elgin Road, Kowloons Hongkong, 19th April, 1908.
STOUT."
Brand Stout has been celebrated for thirty
years in the leading Colonial and Foreign Markets.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND
STOUT."
Brand Stout is only slightly higher in price
than other bottlings of Guinness's. Par cask of 8-dozen prints $24,00
quarts S16.00
BARRETTO & Co Agents,
Nos. 32 & 24,-Back Buildings
Queen's Road Central,
ong, 16th Warth, 195,