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AVE RECEIVED FOR SALE,

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Be French, Mail Steamer,

Finest 18IGNY BUTTER.

Insurances.

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Ex "Highlander,"

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25

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To-day's Advertisements.

SHT MAIL STEAM

· MITBU RISHI MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

POST OFFICE NOTICES, MAILS will close-

For NAGASAKI AND YOKOHAMA.

Per Sundu, at 3.30 p.m., on Wednesday,

the 19th inst

For STRAITS, COLOMBO, AND. BOM-

BAY

Per Dido is postponed till furthor

notice.

For SAN FRANCISCO.—--

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AND INLAND SEA,

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Tx, wil be despatched, as above

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HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, July 25, 1872.

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Cabin Steerags. To KOEE,......

...8 GO $15 YOKOHAMA & NAGASAKI, 76 SHANGHAI via YOKOHAMA,... 120 KOBE 95 A REDUCTION is made on RETURN CABIN PASSAGES.

90

(FIRE AND LIFE.) CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

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Proposals for Life Assurances will be ro- ceived, and transmitted to the Directors for their decision.

first class Lives up to £1000 on a Single If required, protection will be granted on

Idle.

For Rates of Promiums, forms of pro- posals or any other information, apply to

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong : Canton, Hongkong, January 4, 1867.

TANG TSZE INSURANCE

B

CAPITAL (Fully Paid-up)..... Tl. 420,000.00

ASSOCIATION.

PREMANENT RESERVE.........Tla. 230,000.00

SPECIAL RESERVE FUND......Tls. 288,036.17

TOTAL CAPITAL and Ae-

CUMULATIONS, 2nd)...Tis. 938,036,17 April, 1881...

Director

F. B. FORBES, Esq., Chairmun

W. M. Boyd, Esq. | WM. MEYERHINK, Esq. J. H. PINOKVORS, F. D. Hiren, Esq.

Esq.

HEAD OFFICE-SHANGHAL. Mera RUSSELL & Co., Secretaries.

LONDON BRANCH : Messen BARING BROTHERS & Co., Bankers. RICHARD BLACKWELL, E., Agent, 68 and 69, Cornhill.

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For further Particulare, apply at the Company's OFFICES, PRAYA CENTRAL, West Corner Pottinger Street

H. J. H. TRIPP,

Agent. Hongkong, October 14, 1881. ociá

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EDMUND PHINNEY, Amer. barque, Capt. John Berry-Geo. K. Stevens & Co.

ELVIRA DOVALE, Hawaiian ship, Captain Jose M. Pimentel.-Captain,

HINLOO, German steamer, Captain J. C. Matthiessen.Wieler & Co.

HOPE, American ship, Captain H. Curtia -Douglas Lapraik & Co.

LAURRNS, American ship, Capt. A. Snow. -Melchers & Co.

LENNOX, British steamer, Captain D. Scott Jardine, Matheson & Co."

Lano, British steamer, Captain L Puddi- combe.Adamson, Bell & Co.

OCEAN; British steamer, Captain Henry Webber,Geo. R. Stevens & Co.

PRENIL, German barque, Captain F. Gruiff.-Arnhold, Karberg & Co.

་

D. Roe.Adamson, Rell & Co,

BEAK OF INDIA, British barque, Capt. H.

thor notice.

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hava later advices, private or otherwise, than his VESSELS TO ARRIVE. AT HONGKONG, Name

From

MEMOS FOR TO MORROW.

if practicable, gettin mosquito ova from the

the desired

No. 5605 OctoRun 14,

LOCAL AND GENER Shipping

The next AMERICAN MAIL MAY 7am--Mitsu. Bishi Mail leaves for will then continue his experim

to arrive here on or about Yokohama, &.

BUCCOBA crown the experiments ha»höpos insty by the 8. S. Galic very shortly to recommencem WILSON'S Circus goes to Queenals with the genuine filaria-nurtu

Noon

Esmeralda leaves for Amoy. Noon, Albay leaves for Swatow, &c. 8 p.m. --American Mail leaves for Toko-

hama and Bar Francisco. 3pm-Lennox leaves for Singapore,

THE

HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

Established A.D. 1841.

香港大藥房

A. S. WATSON & Co. FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGOIST,

́-IMPORTERS

or

orhausting the pockets of the Bats

TOUCHING tho move

•Leave, we ? MAY

has been received here Marsh, Colonial: Secre

February next Mr probably precede Mr PG

Tam Tautsi Mah went North to-day F.&O. mail steamer, and will

{ quito,—that is, should he be able to infect the monkeys so as to produce conditions o similar to those observed in filaria-infected men-mahblogs, be anys, auch useful and interesting information may be obtained. He is also engaged at present in closely prus direct for Hongkong about examining all the different species he can secure of mosquitoes for tl in the mland with a view to Inture descriptionS MIŅASUTO", ments and classification which he hopes will and in determining the peculiarities if any, of those species which are to be dreaded, as compared with those which as far as the diseases under notice ara cons cerned, need not be regarded with such pathological interest. In the meanwhile he intends trying the local mosquitoes on dogs, Dr Myers remarks that should it turn out Tas Indian Government bas.net i that in Formoss (an inland only separated encourage the construction of tele by's channel 180 miles wide from the main communication, we are glad to see land, and in constant communication with read that the Governor-General In Amoy) there is immunity from Blarial has, in exercise of the power disease, and that this is due to the absence the Sea Customs Act, exempted fro of a fit intermediazy host, then a pritom duties all materials and appar addition will have been made to our in the construction and maintena knowledge of the geographical distribution hues of telephonic com

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Soda Water, Lemonade, Tonic Water, Gingerade, Potass Water, Sarsaparilla

Water, and other Aorated Waters.

The Manufactory is under direct and continuous European Supervision. Hongkong, June 1, 1876.

PasazyGeus arriving in Hongkong, or any other persons who may desire to con- sult the files of local, China, Japan, American, English, Indian or Austra lian newspapers, are invited to call at the "CHINA MAIL" Office, where over sixty newspapers, dailies and weeklies, from these countries, are now filed for reference.

of this disease and the conditions LOOGABARY. for its general existence, and propagation The narrative of experiments with ive monkeys is interestingly told, and well repays perusal even to cure who is not in any sense a specialist in such medion. matters Water, covered with the mosquitose who had been fed on the blood of his filarated subject, was given to the monkeys to drink, they partook of it only when reduced to starvation and even theo with extreme repugnance and much scream-

ота

The priblication of this were commenced ing and chattering. Oboervations were

taken for six or seven weeks, in one cas Lat 9.15 p.me

for a like number of mon

The China Mail.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1881,

IMPERIAL MARITIME OUSTOMS MEDICAL REPORTS. oaSERVATIONS ON FILALIA SANGUINIS Ho MINIS IN BOUTH FORMOSA: NY - WYKEHAM: MYERS, M.-B., BURGEON TO "DAVID MANSON MEMORIAL” YOSPITAL

Dr. W. W. Myers, Takow, furnishes to

sign of filarice, no signa

(and no anything

we understand, from Shanghai to Fi ance to report on the realt mission, which has bee lays wonder, and is now

g

past,

thing

nications

We are informed by the agent Northern Talogs pl kong-Amoy Cable failed and noon during the heavy gale ther The test gives the break close

and it therefore likely that the has been caused by a ship fouling the cable. Until telegrams will be forward Amoy, to be wired off from there destinations Me

AMONGST the passengers to by the P&O, steamer Keang

which could be attributed

them, and Mrs NJ. Hanner and fami were to be found in their blood.

Hannen, formerly Crown immense amount of careful

labour tako

up the position of Acting Chis must have been expended in making the of H. B. M. Supreme Court in observations noted under his second-stated | Japan; and His Honour Mr Justic purpose as above, and there so minutely will avail himself of sick leave. put down in tabular and dieser form as to liis Honor's well-eared the periods of appearance of the embryos furlough will do him every good, in, and their disappearance from the blood ho may return at an early date of the Doctor's subject To Ah, from whose long over the Court he has case, he believes, we may feel justified in such marked satisfaction to those

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make corroboratory tests in two other cases The records amply bear out Dr. P. Manson's INTELLIGENCA to hand by last mail ster statements under the 3rd head of his inves- indicate that the difficulty tigations. Dr Myers does not favour Dr P. Sanitary Question, together Manson's opimon that the embryos do not fairly mixed dispute as periodically dissolve in the blood, but that Scheme, has not yet they probably congregate in some organ Colonial Office decline (possibly the lungs), and there remain until Governor's side of the the time arrives for their wanderings and and Mr Price may be withdrawal by mosquitos. He carefully the decision arrived in rega guards himself against dissenting from Dr these subjecta. Manson's observations; merely querying the conclusione that that admittedly able and painstaking observer draws from cer in data, se, to his mind, they do not neem Tuite to follow the promises. Dr Myors suggests the possibility of diurnal solution operations at unce

tam scheme, it is said that received requesting that dertaken without furthe not long ago rumoured that the

referred to in our column) a learned disser tation on filaria sanguinis hominis, embody. ing the minutest details of observations he has made in South Formosa, sinos taking charge of the native buspital at Takow in August 1877, these observations being com- menced at the request of his friend Dr. P. Manson, (Amny), with the view of investi gating and if possible confirming the disco veries and observations made by that gentle man which have, in provious issues of those returns been duly recorded with the pro- minenes their great importance entitled them to Dr Myers set himself (1) to ob- serve the proportion of filaria-infected patients in relation to the whole number of admission to the hospital, further noting the external manifestations present; (2) to the end of such of the embryos as do act the extension of Mny mote the periods of appearance and disap- come within mosquito range, and advances March or April next pearance of the embryos from the blood of certain observations of his own, extending

Cono

infected persons, with a view of corrobo- in a different direction from that previously rating or disproving Dr P. Manson's recent recent -discoverios as to the periodicity dis- played by the parasities in their appearance, (3) to account if possible for the disappear- ance of the embryos at certain hours, dis- covering if possible, whether this was fins)

General

order.

wan, coming

explored, and, of course, in turn, open be verified or shown inoonzistent by the anb sequent investigations of those who may take the trouble to check him. He records at much length various experimente he has been able to make in reference to the of

inkling that dos

other imp

the tim

as regarded the swarm or whether they lay matter; and modestly offers them sa first dormant or adherent during certain periods steps in that research for which much am- had reached the Colp in the lungs or other organs of the body, gler opportunities must be afforded. A and (s) to attempt by experiments on number of his experiments were undertaken went home from the

than one RM monkeys to produce conditions similar to in the presence and with the sasirtance of those observed in filaris-infected men. The Dr John Dudley, R. N., then of H. B. M. S. at the remult

Prion and Dr Are paper, which covers 25 pages, is one for the Marquito and others, with the amistance of professional more than the general reader,

Dr McKinley, R.N., of the same ship, and of the wood, the

but the results of the painstaking enquiries Dr Peter Anderson of the English Presby congratulated upon the general outlook carried by Dr Myers may be given thas terian Mission, who support his descriptions things gove briefly. He repeatedly examined the blood | of the behaviour of embryos after nocturnal of patients admitted on the general list, at and messing extraction. He concludes that various hours both night and day, devoting the supposition that solution may be the particular attention to those suffering from final process by which removal is effected malarial disease, but during the eighteen would appear from what he saw to be months to which the report now before na | most, ressonable and probable method refers, only succeeded in finding three fila accounting for what is no doubt à very te |riated persons, two of whom declined to markable and puzzling phenomenon. De

pernit more than occasional corroboratory Myers concludes his remarkably able, examination, leaving only one subject interesting, and lucid paper with the the doctor's hands for an eight months" that, with dogs, thought worms are series of persistent and close observations in other parts of the vascular system,estill and almost hourly prioking for blood to be the greater number abide in the miscroscopically examined. From the large and undoubtedly from that position effect number of patients and others fruitlessly all their musc pramined at various hours in the day and the parasita night, and the almost toul absence of those localised dianases which Dr D. Manson has proved to £he favoured: be dependent on parasitic obstruction Drone Myers in led to think that the state of blood | human sufferer vill Infection is not com

quiem hominia does not, exist in the blood of

@ware

when the