Shipping-Steamers.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
AND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1905.
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV. CO., LD.
JOINT SERVICES.
FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS FOR LONDON AND CONTINENT. MONTHLY SAILINGS FOR LIVERPOOL.
TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR ALL EUROPEAN, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN, WEST AUSTRALIAN, JAVA AND SUMATRA PORTS.
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
OUTWARD,
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ...... "ANTENOR"
FROM
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ..........................
STEAMERS "ACHILLES*
.DUE 28th July. ***** 3rd August.
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
"MACHAON'
4th #
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
"ORESTES"
gth
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GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
"ULYSSES"
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GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
"OOPACK"
*
"PELEUS"
16th
2)
"ALCINOUS"
23rd
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL 199 GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
19
"AGAMEMNON"
.30th
13
me
17
FOR
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ........
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
"JASON"...misormm ...... TEENKAI".
".................................» 6th September,
HOMEWARD.
STEAMERS
TO SAIL
.24th July.
ist August. 1sth
* GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL "TELEMACHUS ". LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "AJAX ". LONDON AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP “IDOMENEUS”.
GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL "STENTOR " LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "PAKLING". LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP ACHILLES1th September.
• GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL" YANGTSZE " LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "ANTENOR "
ane 30th $1
.agth
................. 20th
* Taking Cargo för Liverpool at London Rates.
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.
OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH
.76th
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO,
AND TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO ALL OVERLAND COMMON POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA.
FOR
EASTWARD.
STEAMERS
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and) “ MACHAON"
all PACIFIC COAST PORTS, vid NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA ) "JASON".
FROM
WESTWARD.
STEAMER
Shipping Steamers,
HONGKONG-MACÃO LINE
S.S."WING CHAI," Captain T. AUSTIN, X.N.S THIS Steamer departs from Hongkong on TH
Week Daya, at 7.30 AM. and on Sun days at 8.30 AM, Departs from Maces on Week Day at 230 2.M. and on Sundays at 5,30 PM., if tide permits. ****
FARES:Week Days, aut Class, including Cabin and servant, Single $11 Return Ticket, #5; and Class, $t; 3rd Class, so cents.
TRIPS TO CANTON AND MACAO. THE Yok On Company's Splendid Steamer * "YING KING," 1,088 tons, Registered. Captain E. J. Page, will leave Hongkong for Capton every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY EVENING, at 9.50 PM ratuming to Hongkong every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, about 5 P.M.
On SUNDAYS she make an EXCURSION TRIP to MACAO, leaving Hongkong at 8.30 AM and returning from Macão abant 7.30 F.M.
Every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the following ratestet and and Class, Single Ticket, Return, $21 3rd Class, Single, 30 these rung, is the newest, fastest and most The "YING KINO" is especially fitted for cents, Rature, 30 cents i Eteerage, to centu
Breakfast, Tiffin and Dinner can be supplied luxuriously furnished steamer on the line and either on Board, or at the Macao Hotel, for is lighted throughout with Electricity, also hot returning passengers only, at an extra charge and cold water is suppilad. --- of ta
FARES: On Sundays, passengers desiring to have a First Class, single journey to Canton ...$3.00 Private Cabin which has accommodation for Seconda
11 *** 1:50 for more passengers, will be charged 53 |· extra.
First class single journey with Cabin 3,00 (to Macao 1.00
(to Macao 2.00 1 with Cabis 300
Bo Cents. ........ $1.50 single tt
aštamai 30 retur #
11 ***** 50
return
L
$1
return
$1
First Class Passengers, who do not care to return of the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed to do so the following day (Monday) on pro Second, single duction of the Return Half Ticket. Should the Steamer not run on the Monday, owing to the Boiler cleaning, due notice will be given by the Captais, and the Hall Ticket will be available for the following day.
The Steamer is lit throughout by Electricity. The Steamer's wharf at Hongkong is at the Western end of Wing Lok Street.
MING ON & Co.,
zad Floor, No. 16, Victoria Street. Hongkong, 13th June, 190g.
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STEAM TO CANTON. HE New Twin Screw Steel Steamers
Tons Captain "KWONG CHOW"...1,309...J. P. MARTIN, "KWONG TUNG"...1,238. H. W, WALKER. Leave Hongkong for Canton at every evening (Saturday excepted).
Leave Canton for Hongkong about 5.30 o'clock every evening (Sunday excepted).
TO 541L
These Fine New Steamers have unexcelled 7th August.
Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans 3rd September.io First Class Cabins,
DUR ................................ 30th July, "NINGCHOW"......17th August,
TACOMA, SEATTLE, - VICTORIA andĮ “ TELEMACUUS"
PACIFIC COAST
For Freight, apply to
Hongkong, 20th July, 1905.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
FOR
SWATOW, WEI-HAI-WEI, CHEFO0)
and TIENTSIN
YOKOHAMA and KOBE........................
ILOILO.........
SHANGHAI...
MANILA
CEBU and ILOILO
MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, PORT DAR-1 WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK- TOWN, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRIS. BANE, SYDNEỶ and MELBOURNE....
STEAMERS.
TO SAIL.
» CHIHLI " ........... 21st July.
**-TAINAN "
22nd
22nd
"YOCHOW"{
2250
25th.
"SUNGXIANG "*.
29th,,
KALGAN".
"TEAX" *
** TAIYUAN " • ‡.0) and August.
Passage Fare-Single Journey ...$4 Meals
...$1 each. The Company's Wharf is a short distance West of the Harbour Master's Office,
Third
་་
Breakfast, Tiffa or Dinner $1 each only, Wine an Spirit of the best brand are used,
The whart in Hongkong is at the West end of Wing Lok Street,
The wharf in Macao is the same as the
·S.S. Perseverance.
For further information, apply to the Office of
YUK ON S. 5. Co., LD, No. 116, Wing Lok Street, Hongkong,
or to
Messrs. WENDT & Co., Canton Agents. S. A. NORONHA, Macao Agent. Hongkong, 17th May, 1905.
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REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE
SHIU ON S.S. CO., LD, and to YUEN ON S.S. CO., LD
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No. 8, Queen's Road West. Hongkong, z6th June, 1905,
'Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtsze and Northern China Potts. * The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these steamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light, Darivalled table. Á doly qualified Surgeon is carried.
Ports.
Taking Gargo and Passengers at through Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 19th July, 1905,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS.
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HONGKONG MANILA.
Highest Clam, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers |between Hongkong and Manila.—Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Burgaon and Stewardess carried. -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.
CHINA AND MANILA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
For
Steamship.
Tons. Captain.
Sailing Dates.
ZAFIRO
1540 R. Rodger
MANILA
RUBI....
3540 A. H. Notiay...
1
Saturday, 22nd July,
at Noon. SATURDAY, 29th July,
at Noon.
For Freight or Fossage, apply to
Hongkong, 15th July, 1905.
S
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
GENERAL MANAGERS.
Is
HONGKONG-NEW YORK.
AMERICAN ASIATIC
STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL. (With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast).
"INDRAWADI......................1st July.
.............oth September.
Steamship
"SIERRA BLANCA"
For Freight and further information, apply to
Hongkong, 17th July, 1905,
BOO CHEONG,
昌
STATIONER AND PAPER MERCHANT
No. 30, Pottinger Street.
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always on hand all varieties of
About
BHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Agents.
TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES,
De Voux ROAD.
TO NEW YORK,
VJA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast),
PROPOSED SAltınds from PODUKONG,
Steamship
About "ST. HUGO" .......12th August, 1905. "SHIMOSA" .......to follow.
For Freight and fanter Information, apply
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Azonis.
fty Hongkong, 19th July, roos.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.
(PROJECTED BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).
For
Steamship
Оп
MANILA san
..YUENSANG* ... FRIDAY, 21st July, 4 m,' S'GAPORE, SURABAYA & SAMARANG.CHUNSANG......SATURDAY, 22nd July, 3 P.M. SHANGHAI.....
........HANGSANG †.....SATURDAY, 22nd July, 3 PM.
! Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Cheloo, Tientsin, Newchwang and Yangisze Ports. * Theie Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class Passengers, and are fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., General Managers.
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Hongkong, 20th July, 1905. PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO. PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, VIA SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
FOR
PORTLAND, OREGON,
OPERATING IN CONNECTION WITH
THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY,
Steamship
To Sail at Daylight ou "NUMANTIA"......4370.....................Feldtmaon.........July 22nd, 1905.
" ARABIA"
"ÁRAGONIA"..
Toni.
...........$198..
"NICOMEDIA" ---41370....
Captain
Metzenthin...August 12th, . ..Schuldt.... .......September 1st,
Wagemaun...........September 26th, n
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The S.5. “Arabia " left Portland on the sad inst, and is expected to arrive here on August 3rd. Through Dill of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and all Easters, Canadian and Dalted States Points. For through rates of Freight and further information, communicate with or apply to
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.
FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
THE Company's Steamship
"SYDNEY,
Captain Combe, will be despatched for the.
ALLAN CAMERON. Central Agent,
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM. SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling aa Timor, Pont Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Carga to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.)
THE Steamship
"EMPIRE,"
above Pons, or or about MONDAY, the 24th Captain Helms, will be despatched for the
instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent, Hongkong, 17th July, 1905.
..FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA.
THE Steamship
above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 9th. August, at Noon,
This well-known Beamer is specially fitted
17 for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham-
ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi sions, Ich etc., throughout the voyage,
"GREGORY APCAR," Captain J. G. Olifent, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the 25th instant,
at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED.
Agents. Hongkong, 19th July, 1905
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Insurance.
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
t:
HStationery, Printing and Note Paper, SHIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortest Clais FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS it
Copylag Prosses, also Automatic Cyclostyle
notice, and with all possible despatch,... ·
and Ellams Duplicator.
Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 129.
Hongkong, ajid February, 1905.
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Hongkong, 1st October, 1904
THE Undersigned AGENT to accept
Company are prepared to accept Fint CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Co.. Hongkong 18th May, 1895.
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Thi Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light.
A Stewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon are canfed.
N.B.To assure the additional comfort of passengers the steamers of the Company baye electric fans fitted in staterooms.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 19th July, 1905.
NOTICE.
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THE Public are hereby informed that ap
change has been made in the Rates of Subscription to the Hongkowe Telegraph and they are we pay pyre than TEX CENTS (10 cl) per Single Copy,
THE MANAGER, Hongkong Telegrafk Co, Ltd. Hongkong, sath Sagtember, 1905,
Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
1, ICE HOUSE ROAD
HONGKONG.
CAFLK ADDRESS,—Telegraph, Hongkong."
"THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE,"
RADIUM AND THE GERM OF LIFE.
A cable message from London published yes terday throw soms light on the devolopment of radium experiments, in which some of t master minds of science are now, engage. The statement was to the affect that Mr Burke, of the Cavendish Laboratory, Can bridge, as a result of placing together in a team tube radium and sterilled bouillon, had dej veloped cultures presenting the appearances e Life, such as growth and subdivision, Thị cultures, Mr. Burke considers, it axactly H bert Spencer's definition of Life, MN The speculations that the phenomens of dium are giving rise to may prove of more a sorbing interest than the study of radium tel
As has been pointed out by recent writers, old conception of the atom of matter as beise indivisible is being discarded, and old theo
HE leading English Newspaper in China Alto widely circulated is Japan, Cochin China, Ceylon, India and the Far Eastries regarding an ultimate simple or singles
material element are being investigated with generally.
new intarest and probability. These problers are being attacked both experimentally and mig thamatically. Much of this research is, ther fore, as yet speculative in character. Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent scientist and author, Prin cipal of the Birmingham University, has stated that "ro0,000 electrons could lie in the diag ter of an atom. Yet three hundred million atoms can. He in a row side by side inch 1"
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Radium was discovered as far back as 18′′ by M, and Mms. Curio, two French scient who also discovered polonlum, though I was heard about its wonderful properties A special feature is made of full and accur.
a comparatively recent date. In what man that discovery was mada is an oft-told t but the fact remains that it may prove on rot. ste reports of local occurrences, and of mats the most important achievements of modem
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chemistry.
It may cause," as one writer putai. it, "an entire revolution in the science, and the abandonment of laws and dogmas which wo bave always held to be immutable. From radium studies new views, says an authority, are being taken of the evolution of matter-of sime ple and complex atoms constant interchange. The very structure of the atom is being investi gated from the new standpoint of the electe theory of matter. If the atom is electricity, the it is not permanent, but in a state of change, kar all matter must be radio active. And, in fac the soil, in water, and in other unexpect radio-activity has been detected in metals
places.
THE KEY TO A HIDDLE
"Put in the plain language, radium may, the key whereby the riddle of the material verse may be solved, for it may explai birth and death of atoms. That is the of the moment. If all maiter possessed property of producing electric conductivity gas, from which it is separated by a screen) peribus to ordinary masters-iodization it has that wonderful property which in possi..
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The probleme opened up by the' behavi of radium, one of the most costly products, the age-140,000 per ounce and the sep tion of which as a pure element has not yet accomplished, are therefore said to practic embrace the whole system of physical nature, the problems of the elements, the fife and dea of worlds; and electricity seems the master-k that may unlock these infinite secrets. **
HERBERT SPENCER'S THEORIEK Herbert Spencer's definition of Life, brie expressed, is the adaptation of internal relati to external relations. A living thing dite from a non-living thing by being able to changes in itself changes in what la calle, environment. As early as 1860 Spencers announced the issue of a "system of synth philosophy," which, beginning, with the B principles of all knowledge, proposed to t how the law of evolution was gradually real in life, mind, society, and morality. Thes works were published between 1863 and 185 and in them he followed a different plan t authority," Spencer's system is founded or his earlier writings. "Metaphysically," Lav doctrine of relativity deduced by Hamilton Mansel from Kant, but carried by him; s says, a step further: "Our postulate An unknowable power; the existence of able likenesses and differences among the festations of that power; and a resulting gation of the manifestations into those of Ject and object. in its completalsky the formula of evolution is thus, stated! Evolution is an integration of malter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from an indeßolis Incoherent homogeneity to a defnite,.coherent belerogeneity; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation! This law of evolution applies equally, to orders of phenomena-astronomic, geologic biologic, paychologic, sociologic, etc. sinc these are all component parts of one cosme though distinguished from one another conventional groupings!! Rummet In his works, Spencer applied the lay evolution to practically all department of and made it account not only for the p mena within each group, but also for the "The researches of Darwin," says the aut nection between one science and adu
quoted, "bad accumulated ample mater showing the continuity of development, d tural and functional, in plants and animals; an Spencer's view of biology and the definition o tile he proposes ('the definite combination heterogeneous changer, both simultaneous ne successive in correspondence with exterosley existences and sequences), are meant to si its connection both wib inorganic changed on. the one hand and with mind on the other.
The principles or morality are looked-nj by Spencer, as the copestone of his system his other investigations being only prelim to them.. Ethics, he holds, bai its ro physical, biological, paychological, and do phenomena, for, by them the conditions oštr mao activity are prescribed and supplied"-TI best conduct is that which most fully realinfa evolution-hich promotes the greatest vitality of life in all, offipring, and the race-the ba inace of egoism and altruisms being attained by compromise between these contending prigg ciples. The measure of life in said to be ple ¡XPRESSES. | sure, but the utilitarian school are at fauk han
Assuming that the end (greatest happiness) is better known than the means to it (morality); and in ignoring the fact that accumulated ex periences of ability have become consolidated in the superior races into a moral sente
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PROFESSOR HASWELL/S'IDEA.{{PA The discovery of Mr. Burke is apparently new, and up till the present time seemingi little or nothing regarding his theory or the nai rare of his experiments has been allowed to es
cape.
My idas," said Professor Haswell, of the Deparment of Biology, Sydney University, when asked his opinion on the subject, # is that Mr. Burke has found something which he de not himself suppose to be living organi but something which acts in such a way that is conforms to Herbert Spencer's definition. This, of course, is pure conjecture on my part in the absence of faller information.” As fit as thè words of the cablegram go there is no evides. ce that he really supposes that it is something living that he has been able to create begee what appears in this-mixture is somethi would conform to Spencer's defaİLİOM/M
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