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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
STEAMERS
SAIL
TUESDAY,
KUDAT and SANDAKAN.......
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and BREMEN
BORNEĠ "
Capt. F. Sembill
"BUELOW"
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft bottom 75 it. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,
No, 2 DOCK.
Length Inside, 376 ft. Width of entranos, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 20.5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours.
THESE DOCKS ars Conveniently situated io Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is mspectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work 3 P.M., 261b May, and a large stock of material is always at head, (plates and angles all being tested by
Lloyds' surveyors),
1 WEDNESDAY,
Capt. H. Förmes .......
Noon, 3rd June.
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE
and YOKOHAMA
* KLEIST
1.
Capt. R. Mayeṛ...............................
About WEDNESDAY,
3rd June.
MANILA, NEWGUINEA, BRIS-"
BANE - SYDNEY and MEL- "MANILA
THURSDAY,
Capt. Minssen ..................
15,1,M., 18th June.
BOURNE
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1908.
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FRENCH MAIL LINES.
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FORTNIGHTLY SERVIÓE TO and FROM EUROPE via JUEZ CANAL
TO and FROM JAPAN via BHANGHAI,
FOR
STEAMERS CAPTAINS
TO BAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....TONXIY ....................... ..Charbonnel...15th May, afternoon, MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS...YARRA ......Sellier.......z6th May, 1 PM, SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA,POLYNESIEN........Broc........... 8th Jane, P.M...... MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ...... ERNEST SIMONS...Girard....... 9th June, at 1-P.M.
Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Austràlia; at Port Said for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea..
Through-Tickets-to-London-via-Paris from £37.to up to £71,10. 20 hours' railway from Marseiller to London,
Interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marseilles.
For further particulars, apply to
Hougkong, 12th May, 1908
P. NALIN,
ACTING AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.
FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.- -HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.
ALL ROUND THE WORLD LINE.
Outward: ANtwerp, dunkİRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NAPLES, COLOMBO, VIA SUEZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, CHIN. WANTAÓ (Peking, Tientsin), KOBE, YOKOHAMA, -
GENOA TO HONGKONG IN 30 DAYS, NAPLES
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Transpacifio: VICTORIA (B.C.), VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO,
Connecting with the Canadian Pacifio Railway, FREIGHT to OVERLAND
PASSENGERS 10 OVERLAND and EUROPE via VANCOUVER.
·YOKOHAMA-VANCOUVER...............13 DAYS.
LONDON and PARIS...26
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Homeward: MEXICO, RIVER PLATE, BRAZIL, LA PALLICE, LIVERPOOL,
VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS.
Proposed Sailings:
† AMIRAL MAGOM......... 4th June. 1
.* AMIRAL EXELMANS...25th July.
Į OUESSANT ....................27th Aug. ̧
MALTE.
CEYLAN
13th Oct, 26th Nov.
↑ CORSE ...................................11th Jan. '*
† No passengers, * Intermediate class and rates of prstags.
New Twin Screw 16,000. T. displac., 1st class accommodation, splendidly equipped with single berth cabins. All round the world ticket by these boats, · ́
For further. Particulars, apply to
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P. NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE.
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WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
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HONGKONG-WUOHOW LINE
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JAIL FROM HORGCoño: TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 4 DAYS New These masman, hava Excellent Salobs Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by
Electricity,
THE CLINATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS
VVERY. FINE AND EXHILIRATING. Information apply towe
For
2008.
$BUTTERFIELD."-SWIRI
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Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessela in or out of Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The fosting derrick is capable
of lifting 55 tons.
Steam Launches of Bies or Wood, Ligators, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises;
Tonders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be
garant ed
The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that of any port in the world.
Telephone: Nos. 376, 508, or 681. Telegrams, ** Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. H. G. 4th and 5th Edt.
Liebers, Sontts,
A. 1, and Watkins.
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
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Shipping-Steamers.
-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
KEGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICE
BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN
Steamer
.Frum
Expected on or about
Will leave for
TJILATJAP... JAVA TJIPANAS... AMOY
TJIBODAS TJIKINI... TJIMAHI......
TJILIWONG.
· Second half May Second half
SHANGHAI
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May
JAVA
First hall
JUDE
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JAVA
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Jane
Second half
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VISIT TO THE FIRST WEATHER-PLANZ
OBSERVATORY,
Ata private house ju the neighbourhood of Denmark Hill may be sese a collection of com mon tropical plants which will shortly play, s important part in predicting our weather. When it is stated that these plants, when. “read” in conjunction with other acientific data, will not only tellus what the weather will be like several days ahead, but also warn us of forthcoming storms, cyclones, earthquakes, fire-damp, and volcanic eruptions, it will be seen that much is claimed by this new method of weather for casting
It is the invention of Professor J. F. Nowack, su Austrian barod and scientist. Although Londoners will shortly have an opportunity of witnessing the inauguration of this ingenious system of weather forecasting, it cannot be said to be an entirely new idea. Professor
Vienas Exhibition of 1888, when he ex Nowack drew public attention to it at the hibited some specimens of this wonderful pleat, and gave weather forecasts. forty-night but for special hours of the day. These hourly heure in advance, not only for the whole day, forecasts proved wonderfully correct. At this lime the King, then Prince of Wales, happened the system and Professor Nowack a few to be in Vienna. His attention was called to
months later astonished bit Majesty in London hy predicting a thunderstorm for a certain hour five days in advance, which prediction came true, men d
Since that period Professor Nowack has been' buey improving and perfecting his system, col- lecting lands for the opening of requisite stations, and, what is still more essential,
gathering together a number of plants. There is nothing at all wonderful in the appearance. of the latter. They come from the tropics Cuba, India, and, Mauritius-and look all the world like a fine acacia plant, But they are' exceedingly sensitive, and are appropriately called "weather plants," their botanical name being Abrus precatorius nobolís. At the be. ginning of 1906 Professor Nowack visited Cuba nad Mexica with the object of collecting sufficient plants to establish a weather plant station in London. to all, his party. collected same 7,403 of the, désired plants in Cuba. These were shipped to New York, 1,000 of them remaining there, the other having been- brought on to London.
Despite every attention from the hands of skilled gardeners the whole of those 1,450 plants succombed with the exception of a sin gla specimen_Bulihe seeds the party-hroughị back with them struck,, and to-day over 1,900 young weather plants are to be seen in the greenhouse in the garden of the observatory, There are specimens of the Abrus: from Cuba, Jamaica, India, Barbados, South Africa, and Mauritius.
The greenhouse in which the plants are boused is divided into two compartments! The First half
first compatment entered measures 20 feet by Second half
20 feet, and is where the observation of the JUB
movements of the plants will be studied. Here Send half.there are some 350 plants,-a-number of them:
Juse
being enclosed within four panes of glass. It
The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have Accommodation for
■ limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading.
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to
Telephone No 375,
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
YORK BUILDINGS, 1st Boor,
Hongkong; 19th May, 1908.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAINES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGRONG. CANTON AND KOUANG.SI.
kaots.
S.S." PAUL BEAD, 1,900 tons, 85,"CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 knots,
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the 'ne.. Departure from Hongkong at so P.M. (Saturdays excepted)." Departure from Canton at 5,15 Pa. (Sundays excepted).
is these plants which assist the scientist in predicting our weather. The second compart
crossed and blue and seismic where the
ika plača
the form of earthqo etc, may be expected future. Its Professor
yours of study, the defined tracks, and these years in advance. Whore one another we may expect a disturbanc
It is certainly only fair to add that Professor Nawack has foretold every great carib that has affected this earth for the past, twe years, including the calamition, that Martinique, San Francisco, and Janiaka. These disasters are foretold by the map some time in advance, and then by subsequent studyofshe weather plant the exact date, locality, and nature of the disturbance is obtained. Accord- 10g to Professor, Nowack wo may expect durv in the next few years earthquaker or similar Rom, Constantinople, Mexico, Havana, Buen disturbances in the neighbourhood of Lisbon, Aytes, at a point west of Nadagascar, at čhave al places in northern Japan, fo the fodian Archipelago, and in Cape Colony.
That many recognise the value of his system Governments as well as Lloyd's offered to is evident when it is stated that vasions foreign purchase it from him for their exclusive con to, but these offers have been declined, for it is the inventor's intention to open a station of his own and give the benefit of his discoveries to the whole world, wherein he is deserving of every encouragement and praise.
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A. B. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
OTICE is hereby givan that the TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the COMPANY since its Registration) will be held at the Offices of the Company in Alexandra Building, on SATURDAY, the 30th instant, at of the enoral Managers together with a Navp, for the purpose of receiving the Report. Statement of Accounts to the gist December, 1907.
The REGISTER or. SHARES will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the agth inst., to MONDAY, the rat Juno (both days inclusive), will be Registered t dering which period no Transfer of Shares:
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Manager. Hongkank, 20th May, 1908.
Intimations.
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ment is 30 feet by 15 feet, and is reserved as a | CANTON EMBROIDERY and CHINESE preparatory depot before the plants are admit- ted to the first compartment. Part of it, too, serves as a nursery for those in embryo.". Spe ́cial stoves keep the plants in a continuous tro-
pical heat.
A SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM. Having described the plants, we now come, to the system, to a word, this is scientific, and not easily, explained in popular language. Briefly, it is a case of "reading" the plants in conjunction with sun spots and other scientific
all from the best French patterns, HONGKONG AND SWATOW. Hongkong, 10th October, 1907,
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data. For instance, immediately a spot suff. FOR SALE, REPAIR AND HIRE. ciently large to influence our cant appears on the surface of the sun, the twigs of the plants directed toward the district affected make more or less rapid upward or downward movements, From the rapidity and extent of such move- ments, the direction lo which the twigs point,, and their varistion of colour, the Professor can at once' determine the nature, force, and geo- graphical position of the disturbances that will affect our earth about twenty-six days later-
,,when the spot completes its first; rotation round the sun... It will be seen from this that the plant plays only a part, though a very im-
ditions
Trose supeib steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Light portant one, in the prediction of weather con- and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine..
The Company's Own Wharf nest Wing Lok Street. Canton Agents -Messrs. E. Pasquet & Co
For further particulars, please apply to
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Intimation.
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From this one station' the weather can be foretold for a radius of 4,007 milei, covering almost the whole of Europe and the North Atlantic, for the system in adaptable to sea as
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well as to land. It is hoped. later to establish MOTOR LAUNCHES
a atation in New York, to be, followed by another in Sao Francisco, Bombay, and Tokyo, and so in this way cover the whole world. It
is only right here to add that Professor Nowack is not predicting the weather at the moment, At the same time he can tell with wonderful
weather, rale or sunshine.
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He may certainly be credited with having foretold the recent colliery disaster in Durbem.. Some ten days before the calamity the writer happened to be in the greenhouse when the
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Professor, pointing to some of his plats, FAMOUS HUMBER
remarked that they indicated a fire-damp „Explosion in the neighbourhood of Newcastlei
The fact is, reliable forecasts cannot be made unless the plants are watched continuous. Jy day and night." Again, those at Deomark Hill are bardly matured enough, few of them. boasting, of more than sixty leaves, while the
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