Intimation.
Powell's
WHITE
GOODS
LINENS.
SHEETS:
Plain, por pair,--
2 × 3 yds., $12.00 to $25.00 23 yds, $14.50 to $30.00
Hemstitched,-
23 yds; $18.50 to $35.00 2 × 33 yds. $21.50 to $45.00
PILLOW CASES:=
Plain,
$12.50 to $37.50 per doz.
Trilled.
$2.75 to $10.75 per pair
Hemstitched,
$2.75 to $21.50 per pair
TOWELS:-
Huckaback, Hemmed,– $5.75 to $11.50 doz.
Hemstitched,
$0.00 to $21.50 doz.
Fringed,
$0,75 to $18,50 doz.
Diaper and Damisk Towels,-
$10.50 to $27.50 doz.
TABLE LINEN –
2 × 2 Yds, from $6.75 ench
9. x
21
8.50
2
* 3
10,50
"
x
8
10.75
12.50
13
x
15.00-
15,00
21 x
18,50
19,50
Serviettes to match:
"ALL" LINEN
TABLING
and 24 Yards by any Length
From $1.25 per yard.
POWELL'S
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS,
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Public Compantes
HONGKUNG AND WHAMPO COCK. COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ORDINARY VEARLY MEETING
will
New Praya, on MONDAY, 100 24th February, 1958, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December,
1907.
AN ALCHUMIST'S DREAM.
HOW TO MAKE DIAMONDS,
The making of artificial diamonds is a par suit in which M. Lemoine, of Paris, and his generous patron, ir Julius Wernher, have had many predecessors. It has attracted all sorts
**
Oos of the most famous professors of the art of crystalliding carbon was that weird man of
Intimations.
A FAIR EXCHANGE.
Large sums of money are no, doubt, realized, from simple spéculation, but the great fortunes are derived from legitimate and honest business where the goods furnished are worth the price, they bring. famous business
the Uthiges of the Company, Queen's Buildings worked at it until the dreams of the alchemist | men kave accumulated their millions, wholly in- have become la this respect the wonders of this way. Prompt and faithful in every con- tract or engagement they enjoy, the confidence the chemist..
is refused to unstable or tricky competitors. In of the public and command a class of trade that
the long run it does not pay to cheat or decalve distinguish between real friends and foes in disguise. A humbug may be advertised with noite like the blowing of a thousand trumpets, but it, is soga delected and expored. The manufacturers of
will be CLOSED from the roth to the 28th - mystery, whose origin, age, and career puzzica, | others. Even a child or a' dog soon learns to Jul
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
February, both days inclusive. ·
By Order of the Board of Directors, in
THOS. I. ROSE," „Secretary, S
Hongkong, 29th January, 1908.' [176 HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
an entire contury--the Chuat of St. Germains This extraordinary man, fop, fiddler, P alchemist, musician, Jacobio and Jacobilo claimed to bave acquired the magic ari during his residences in india, where it now seems clear that he went as a French spy in the service of Louis XV. He pretended to have the art of melting Lems, and aven of mak
WAMPOLE'S FREPARATION Lave always acted on very different principles. Befors offering it to the public they first made
ANNUAL MEETING of the Mem.ng new ones. There is a well-authenticated are of its merits. Thun, and then only, did
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on MONDAY, the 34th February, 1908, 4 P.M., in the City Hall, for the following purposes, viz.:
1. To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1907,
2. To zlect a New Committee, 3. To consider the following Resolution :— That in coosequence of the importance of the trada oxisting between this port "and Bombay it is resolved under Rule "XXIII to increase the number of the
"Committee from^g so to so as to
that
diamond worth only 6,000 france, and that he returned one to that monarch of the same shape and size, but without a flaw. The latter was worth 9,500 francs according to the King' jeweller, and the incident much impressed the Court.
GEMS FROM 'BRAZIL.
of what it would do, and found, the statement truthful. To-day they believe in it as we all believe to the word of a tried and trusted friend".
palatable as honey, and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, There is, of course, no proof that St. Ger combined with the Compound Syrup of mains did not substitute a new diamond cut in Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. It aids digestion, drives im- imitation of the old one, and suffer the loss in or purities from the blood and cures Anemis, derto establish his position at Court. Mr. Andrew Scrafula, Debility, Influensa, Throat and Lung I ang accounts alike for his air of gentle birth Troubles, and Wasting Complaints. Dr Louis and for his possession of gems by the theory w. Bishop says: "I take pleasure in saying I that he was a son of a Spanish princess and a bave fasad it a most efficices preparation, em Portuguese lew, a financier named Audacero.bodying all of the medicinal properties of a He suggests that the I dy might easily have "carried off any quty of the diamonds of [122 Brazil during the reign of her idiotic husband,
Charles II., and that the Court of St. Germain used these legacies to perform the alchemy which astonished and excited his generation.
include a berchaut faterested in the "Bombay trade," 4. To transact any general business.
'By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Hongkong, 14th February, 1908.
THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED.
OTICE is hereby given that the NINE- MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Office, Victoria Build- ings, on TUESDAY, the 25th February, 1908, at 1:45 AM for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1907.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 1th February to UESDAY, the arth February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
་་་ A, SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary to the longkong Land Invest- „ment and Agency Co., Ld., Agents for the Kowloon Land & Build- Ling Co., Ld: Hongkong, 17th February, 1908,
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HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACÃO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
or
pure cod liver oil in a most palatable form." It stands in the front rank in the march of medi.
cine. It is a scientific remedy and a food, with doubtful action. "It. cannot disappoint you." à delicious taste and, flavour. No „slow or
Sold by all chemists,
9
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0. C. MOOSA,
13, D'AGUILAR STREET,
JUST UNPACKED A LARGE AND SPLENDID STOCK OF
FRENCH MILLINERY,
IN
VARIOUS SHAPES AND COLOURS.
HONGKONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE SHOES SHOES! SHOES!
Since his day there have been many attempts to solve the problem. About jo years ago it 'was announced that a Glasgow chemist bad made diamonds; but prof, Storey-Markelyne showed that these gems were not true dia- moods. "Paste," of course, there had loog been, but such siliceous imitations are easily detected by the jeweller or the chemist. What Commerce and Science Sections will re- the scientific world wanted was that real dis-open on MONDAY, February 24th. Students monds should be made, and Prof. Moissan, the are requested to register their names on THUR DAY. Febuary 20th, or FRIDAY, French avant, was the first-man-who-did-February 21st, between 6 and 7 F.M. Copies Great head and great pressure in combination of the Prospectus and Time Tabe way be
was his formula, and he went to Nature's own laboratory for guidance.
THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE. The diamond consists of pure carbon, which,
having been produced in the high temperature of the earth's centre, is then ejected through
VENING CLASSES in Engineering,
obtained an application to the undersigned at Queen's College.
E. RALPHS,
Director.
Hongkong, 19th February, sool.
some mud volcane in the "pipes which WHERE ARE
traverse the "blue "ground" of Kimberley, These conditions Prof. Muisson proposed to imitate on a smaller scale in his laboratory.
In order to obtain the tremendous beat
necessary be employed the electric furnace THE GEARLY MEETING
EIGHTY-THIRD ORDINARY To get the tremendous proïsure he utilised the SHAREHOLDERS in this Company, will be properties of iron. A quantity of pura, iron is held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Man-packed in a crucible containing carbon in the sions, oo TUESDAY, the 25th February, at form of charcoal made from sugar. It was well Iz o'clock Nooo, for the purpose of receiving known to chemists that molten, iron would dis a Report of the Directors, together with a
solve carbon, and Prof. Moissan, by subjecting Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, his crucible to the tremendous heat of 4,000 C. confirming the appointment of a Director and
(7,900. Fab.) in the electric furnace, obtained electing Audithra.
the result that the iron became saturated with carbon as a sponge with water. The next thing was by pressure to convert this saturating carbon into a liquid which should crystallise on cooling-into, in fact, a diamond,
LABORATORY RESULTS,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 25th February; both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. E. CLARKE,
Secretary,
· Hongkong, 4th February, 1908,
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.
Prof. Moissan relied on the fact that iron saturated with carbon expands on cooling, in -tead of contracting. He had his white-bot THE
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY crucible plunged into ice-cold water, This ANNUAL MEETING or SHARE sudden cooling solidified at once the outside HOLDERS will be held at the offices of the of the mass forming a rigid shell. At the same General Managers at 21.30 A.M., MON- time, the central mass of carbonised iran be. DAY, 2nd March, to receive-Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, gan to expand, The enormous pressure caused 1907, and the Report of the General Managers, by this expansion within the outer shell, which The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company would not give way, was sufficient to force out will be CLOSED from the 24th instant to the minute transparent, dense crystalline forms and proximo, both days inclusive,
The sponge had been squeezed by science, and -JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, instead of water-drops there were squeezed out
General Managers.
diamonds. Hongkong, 19th February, 1908." (138
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS:
HE THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY THE
* MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at 12.30 P.M. 08 TUESDAY, the toth March.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25th inst. to the toth proxima, both days inclusiva. !
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD
General Managers, Ilongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited. Hongkong, 17th February, 1908, [233
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK:
Subsequently Prof. Mõissen, instead of water, used molten lead, for his cooling bath. He was dealing with such high temperatures that molten load was quite cool enough for bis pur- pose, and better results followed,
The Molisan diamonds were not, comery Cially, rivals to De Beers. They cost more to produce than the Kimberley, geims, they were smaller, and they were apt to split up after- wards on exposure to the air. But the pro- press of modern chemical research, is so rupid that it is exceedingly probable that a more marketable gem may yet be produced, and in that case, of course, the De Beers monopoly of diamonds and its power to keep up the market
are over.
ARTIFICIAL RUDIES. Already rubies aro medo artificially which will pass every chemical test, and can only be ING CORPORATION,"
detected by the keenest expert from the blood-' red stones of Burmah, and Dadashan. ¦ Astif- THE DIVIDEND declared for the Hali cial rubies consist of a crystal of silicate of Tear ending 31st December, 1007, at the. rate of Two POUNDS STARLING per Old Share, alumina colored by bichromate of potaab, and ONE FOUND and TEN SHILLINGS | which is whirled round at a high speed while STERLING per New Share, is. Payable on and it is kept at a temperature of 3.300 Fab, by after MONDAY, the 17th day of Febmary, means of the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. While
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FLANNELS, WEEDS, SERGES, Ladies' DRESSING GOWNS
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Samples on application. Const porte orders carefully executed.
Hongkong, 3rd January, 1908,
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*Proprietor,
EASTERN CYCLE CO.
3. ARSENAL STREET, WARCHAI
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Hongkong, 15th January, 1908,"
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་-་།་
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Dentistry.
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WHERE SHAREHOLDERS ARE REQUESTED TO 'APPLY FOR-WARRANTS,”
By Order of the Court of Directors, JAMES JAR. M. SMITH,
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THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY LTD. have pow 40,000 Cubic feet of COL STORAGE available at EAST POINT
Sill be. Open ja 4.M. and M daily Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver "Verishable' goods,
ticles of datural suby, which are melted on
to it and bollt into its struct till the great ruby remains, a veter
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There is somelblog very significant about this These artificial mbies are made of real {} rúby dast melted into ade gom. Now it is alleged by, some of the Parisiac Lemoine's Bi Hmobang, soth Impe, rense friends that he uses a powder, which resembles the diamond dust supplied to rock-drillers and others, Has he discovered a means of melting diamond powder, chips of cutting, the Dumar kotabis gems of the mines, and so on into our diamond? The claims of the Count of SK Germains and the methode of the modara anificial rbbymakers anem so most bares and it as arly pateral that De Beers should turn in Ita zalyppassit, talukes of the artdcial diamonds
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