Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY MAY 7 1900
Intimations.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., L.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, "DERFFLINGER"
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG.....
19th May, at Noon,
STEAMERI
TO BAIL
..............? WEDNESDAY,
Capt. G. Meloom.
:
About WEDNESDAY,
19th May.
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE) "LUTZOW"
and YOKOHAMAămiii) Capt. C. Dowers
ייד
MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,'
BRISBANE, SYDNEY!! and $** MELBOURNE
YOKOHAMA and KOBE
KUDAT and SANDAKAN
"MANILA"...................] FRIDAY,.
Capt. E. Gathampoo work,
2141 May, 10 a‚M.
{" PRINZ WALDEMAR "
fAbout SATURDAY,
Capt. F. Isckenna
29th May,
***** * Beginning of June,
** YORKKO *
Dart F. Sembull
For further Particulars, apply to
-NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
Hongkong, 6th May, 1909.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
·FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN, via SHANGHAI,
FOR
STEAMERS
CAPTAINS TO BAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBĘ, YOKOHAMA „POLYNESIEN Bros., foth May, T.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS'............TONKIN..........Charbonnel... 11th May, at 1 P.M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....SYDNEY .........................X.................'.... 24th' May, F.M
· MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS' „OSEANIEN „.................Sellier ..................,15th May, at 1 P,M.
Transhipment on the Co's Steamers at Singapore for Batavia ; at Colombo for Oulcotia, Bombay and Australis ; st Port Bald for the Levani, Constantinople and Black ban.
Through Tickets to London via Parls from £27.10 up to £75,10," sa bours' railway from
· Marsal¡las to Londan, "
Interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marie!llos.
For further particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 17th April, 1909;
P. de CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,
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MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BÉTWEEN" HONGKONG. QANTON AND
KOUANG-SI.
'S.S. " PAUL BEAU,” 1,900 tons, '14 knots,
B.S. "OHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 koots.
The speedlest, most luxuriously appolated and punctual, steamers on the line
Departure from Hongkong at 10 P.M. (Saturdays excepted), Departure from Canton at 5.15 8.M. (Sundays excepted},
These superb stermars carrying the Freech Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Ligh and Fans and were spocially bulli for this trade. Excellent culsiäe.
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and its barth in Canton opposite Shameer.
1,
No. 1: DOCK.
Length Inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 tt: Water on blooks, 97.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,
THESE
No. 2 DOCK.
Length inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 80:5 ft. bottom 45,8 It. Water on blocks, 30.5 ft. Time to pump out, 9 hours.
DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers la respectfully called to the advantages offered for Doc
Docking and repairing Vossals and Machinery of avery description.
The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and chomply with work and a large stock pf: material is always at hand, (plates and "angles all being tested by Lloyds' surveyors)
Two powriful Twin Screw Towboats Are Kvailable for taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Salling Vessels in or out of the bay. The fonting derrick is capable of liking 15 tonk,
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HOW A MOSQUIZ
BITES.
EASILY EXTERNITATED,
I saw the other day a curious crowd round u Give-gallon gları jar half full of rainwater that' swarmed with "wrigglans," or "wiggletalls, M. while above the water flew adult mosquitoes kept in by a piece of wire screen across the top For the first time many of the onlookers *** realising that morquitoss pass their youth, la the water... A spoonfat of off on the water sent every wriggler to the bottom of the jar, to rise There is a practical blut in this for the crusade no more. They die without air to breathe.
against the mosquito. Fat breeding jars in prominent places so that everybody can see how the insects look, how they breathe and eat and change, and how the oil cuts off their careers. It will emphasise the fundamental principle that water is a necessity if mosquitoes are to breed, and it must be still water.
Mosquitoes do drift over to us from distant swampa sometimes before a wind. But most
of the successivo generations that pester us are home-grown. It is estimated that they do not travel zoo yards from their breeding grounds. We breed them on our premises ja quantities.
A tin pae or other useless utensil la a neglected corner of the shrubbery may send forth eight distinct swarms in a single season. A cesspool or cistem unscreened, has astounding possibili.. tion as breading ground for the pests Damp Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lightors, Steel Buildings and Roots, Bridge ground under a water tip, under doose shrub. Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.
bery, or even under treas serves the same pur- pose
Tendera 13-be-inads-up when required and the workmanship' and material will be granted.
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Clear out all damp situations" at home by. pruning and draining before you get after your The cust of Docking, and repair work, will he found to compam favourably with that surrounding territory. Air you cellar and scat-
ter lime where the floor is damp. of any port in the world,
"Money" "in" best spent in draiping swamp areas. Oiling is a' temporary expedient, and expensive. It has to be repeated · Dig open- diches. They carry off the water and turn swamps into building lots and factory sites...
Telephone: Nos, 376, 508, or 881,
Telegrams, “ Dock, Yokohama,” Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Eat.
Idebors, Bootts,
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
To Let.
TO LET.
)-00MS suitable for Offices in No. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET, in rear of David Sassoon & Co.'s premises.
{"FAIK VIEW" ̈No: ̃ ̄| Robinson" Roal containing Six Room and Several Smati Rooms and Large Cathonies.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co, Lo," Hongkong, 30th April, 1909.
TO LET.
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A. 1, and Watkins,
JUST LANDID:
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The well-known and famous brandy
C
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Bisquit Dubouche
& Co."
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Fer Bol $2.50
XXX Vory Old Fine V.O.C.B. Guarantod 20 Years...
Old
~HOP 'and DWELLING HOUSE, No. 78, |QUINQUINA ? + S. Queen's Road, Central,
Apply to
S. J. DAVID & Co,
Prince's Buildings. Hongkong, 25th March, 1909...
TO LET.
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NOS, 51, 53, & 55, WONG-NEI-CHUNG
ROAL,
Apply to- HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND
& LOAN CO., LTD.,.., No. 8, Queen's Road Weil Hongkong, 9th. March, 1909,
TO LET.
GODOWN NO. 54, DODDELL STREET.
Aply to-
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THE HONGKONG LÁND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO; LD, Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.
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TO LET..
FFICES, Noka. Connaught -- ROAD,
3rd Floor,
No. 3 CLIFTON GARDENS, CONDUIT
ROAD,
A HOUSE in WoKG-NEI-chong Road,
'A HOUSE in RIJOй TERRACE. QFFICES in YORK BUILDING, GODOWNS IN PRAVA KAFT, BLUR BUILDINGs, and No. 168, Dzi Vœux” ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel FLATSID MOREXON TERRACE. No. 10, DES VOUX ROAD CENTRAL,
1st Floor..
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
.MENT & AGENCY CO, LD Hongkong, 19 h. April, torg
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TO LET
S
ALSO
5.50
DUBONNET?
QUINQUINA ?
FRENCH STORE, Solo Agent,
Kanekong, 30th April, 1909.
0. C. MOOSA,
J
`1& 8, D'AQUILAR STREET
Small tracts are cheaply filled and the pad- ́dles (bus' eradicated. Clearing'' a sluggish" stream of grass that chokes it often enables the unimpeded flow to clear out mosquito cologies. Stocking with fish will do thorough work in all bodies of water...
quito we have belong to the genus Colex. This The most numerous nad èxusparating mos-
rests with its body bent so that the abdomen is parallel with the wall, the head and the thorax at an angle of forty-five degrees with it. This is a “barmless* insect—il carries no contagiousl disease. But if we count the misery caused by biting and itching that follows, the less of sleepin hot weather, the pervous oss of children and the sick under this affliction, it affects pub- lic health very markedly,
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Colex is indirectly' a cause of the spread of tuberculosis. The poor, living in houses ipads- quately screamed, that out the night air with the Insects that harass their res. The breath. 1g of impure air depletes the system and thus favours the spread of consumption, biok also of the morals of a community which must ter or swallow hot a continuous stream of male 40 dictions on the creature and its maddening, in
sistent hom
THE MALARIAL MOEQUITO.
Malaria departs with the draining of swamps, for there is only one way to catch this infec. tious disease. Be bitten by a mosquita of the geous Acopholes which has just bitten a person who has malaria. The germe ate in the blood. NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON of the patient. The mosquito pumps a few isto
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Trimmed and Untrimmed TA:
"RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, &o., &c.
| LACE SCARF8, MOTOR VEILS
VARIOUS COLÓRS.
MOUSQUETEIRE GLOVES
IM
WHITE, BLACK & COLORS. ',
WOOLEN DELAINES, NUNSVEIL INGS, VOILES, &c, &c.
LADIES and CHILDREN'S
UNDERCLOTHINGS, Samples on application, Ceart Port orders carefully executed.
Vengkante, guth September, spáð.........
For further particulara, plasse apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameon, Canton, from Robinson Road. Moderate Rental For F. BLACKHEAD
Hongkong, 9th October, 1908..
or to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong. -
HONGKONG-MANILA-
ILOILO-CEBU,
Regalar Steamship Service between Hongkong and above ports...
Steamship
4.S."RIGEL
TabPago Japtain
For
Sailing Dates
1750.
Siafert
MANILA
Immediate
despatch.
Assage, apply to
BARRETTO & CO.,
Agen
"WO', AIRY ROOMS in house on
BELILIOS TERRACE,:dist row, entrance fin
particulars, apply to ang t
HOUSEHOLDER,"
Co Hongkong Telegraph. "Hongkong, th March, 1009.
TO, L'ET,
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FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd-
OFFICES Detour. Gond
Central (formerly occupied by Mussfo. Shewan; | Tomes & Co.). Rents low.
Apply to-
THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,
E. D. Sasson & Co.,
Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 24th' February, vooOG..
LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON
-HAS ALWAYS ON HAND ›› OIGARS, CIGARETTES
HAND,
TOILET REQUISITES
FOR SALES (1) D'AGUILAR STREET,
Co.,
SHIR-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, COAL AND PROVISION MER. CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS
AND GENERAL COMMISSON
AGENTS,
GROUND FICOM,
ST. GEORGESIPUILDING, KONGKONG,
SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTUL ERY.
NO-SOLB: AGENTS, FOR. ARTMANN'S RANTJEN'S
EH COMPOSITION RED HAND BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT DAIMLER'S, PATENT MOTOR LAUNOHES,
Bola algents for -FERGUSON'S SPECIAL URRAM:
P^&O, SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH
WHISKY &
EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOOK:
your blood with the saliva ic'uson in the probe ing process. This mosquito is not found in Sydney, but is responsible for the malaria in Papua and Northern Queensland.
Anopheles is a swamp mosquito with spot red wings and hind leg of inordinate length. | At rest it holds the body in a straight linė at ab angle of forty-five degrees with the support Its" wriggler" lies horizontal at the surface of the water when it comes up to breathe. The others hang at an angle of sixty degrees beads downwards. It is sure that we are often bitten by Anopheles without ham because she has not recently metra malarial victim. A
Yellow fever is communicated only by the bite of a mosquito of the genus Slegomyia Its legs and body are handed with black and white. By draising singuant water courses Colonel Gorgas drova yellow fever out of Cuba and later out of the Panama Canal Zone. The same means have been successful in many Thick foreverly suffered a postly scourge
of it."
THER-NORKOMST
STORM WARNINGS ISSUED FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORE.
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALE.
mast in front of the Water Police Station at *|- Meteorological · signals are holand on the Tsim Sha Trai for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port. peccssarily imply that bad weather is expected kord ---
No.
1.A.COXE
point upwards
A CONE point upwards and DXUM below
A DEUM
4
A ONE
point down
wards and DRUM below
5.
A CONE point down. wards
6.
A CONE point down- wards and BALL below
7... A BALL
8.
A CONE point upwards and BALL. below
They, do not
Indicates & Typhoon : to the North of tàn:
Colony.
indicates a Typhoon to the North-East of the Colony:
indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony,
indicatesa Typhoon
to the South-East
of the Oolony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the Bonth of the Colony,
indicatesa Typhoon
to the South-West of the Colony.
Indicatesa Typhoon to the West of the Colony.
indicates a Typhoon to the Forth Wes of the Colony J
Red Signals lódicate that the centre is believed to be more than 100 miles away from the Colony.
Black Signal Indicate that the centre la balioved to be less than 300 milos away from the Colony,
The above signals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist in such positions or are moving in such directions that feformation regarding them is considered to be of Importance to the Dalony or to shipping leaving the harbour,
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These signals are repeated at the Harbour Office, HMS. Tamar, Green Island Signat Mast, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf, and Godowa Company at Kowloon.
URGENT SIGNALA VER
In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to full typhoos fores at any moment; the following Urgeol Signal will be made at the Water Pulice Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office'
THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBS, AT INTERVALS" OF TEN SECONDA, A Black Cross, will be hoisted at the same time, superior to the other shapes.
NIGHT SIGNALS.
The following Night Bignals will be exhibits.. ed from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water Falice Station at Kowloon, the Harbour. Office Flagstaff, and H.M.S. Tamar
1. Threa Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, Indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated more than 300 miles from the Colony,
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11. Three Lights Vei, Green Red Green, indicates that "typhoon is believed to be situated less than 300 miles from the Colony,
Many places have been made absolutely morquitoless. With achievements as this for
III. Three Lights | e.tical, Red Grees Red, your inspiration, strike hard and with intelli Indicator that the wind may be expected 10 gence at the mosquito nutssuce to your neigh" | Increase to fail typhoon force at any moment, bourhood. Work for comfort later on, even.
if you have to get behind screens now. Screen No. III. -Sigual will be accompanied by the ed porches are better than screen doors. | Explosive Hombs, as above, in the event of the Systematically bunt them by day in the house if | information conveyed by this signal being first they show thomuclyes..
published by night.
It is very unfortunate that people as ofies scratch a mosquito bite." Dân't do it; nothing is to be gained by scratching, and the chances are that you do more barm when you scratch than the morquito does by blting), Scratching is absolutely useier,
These Night Signals will be substituted the the Day Signals at sunset, and will, scessary, be altered during the night,
SUPPLEMENTARY WARMINGS,
For the benefit of Nallye Craft and passing
When a mosquito bites a person it injecta something which is irritating, a kind of acid. Ocean Vessels, a Cone will be azhiblied at. In some cases the sting is more perceptible pack of the following stations during the time than in others, which is probably due to the that any of the above Day Siguals.ars hoir ed susceptibility of some people being greater than in the Harbour, that of others. To relieve the sting of a mos- quito bite use an alkaline substance
There are several alkalis that may be used with effects ammonia is very commoo. If one ahould happen to be in a field when bitten, nor thing else being avaliable, a little moistened fresh soil applied to the bilten part, will act as
Gap Rock
Waglan
Stanley,
Cape Colllason.
San Kl
Sha Tan Kal Tal
This will indicate that there is
aq alkali. The samo je generally true with tê. | somewhere in the Ching Sen, and gard to the bites of bens and other insectus thay Warming is hoisted In the Har require an alkali to neutralise them.
On the other hand, if you scratch a mosquito bile you denuda thà surface, thus making a dí rect opening for gorms. The very {ager:Balls! ACORAELE PRICE with which you scratch could,
Vessels, on