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INTIMATIONS.

ISSUE OF FRENCH 5% PREMIUM BONDS.

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QUARANTEED BY THE FRANCH

GOVERNMENT.

JOUR THOUSAND MILLION FRANCS

divided into Eight Millions 500 franes. 5% Premiam Boada.

Free of all Taxes. redeemable in 75 years at frm 600 and ako by yearly premium drawings Booting to frs 10.000.000;—with a

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Price of issue fra 195.- Applications will be received by the BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE

(THE FRENCH BANK)

# to December 11th, 1919.

L. BERINDOAGWE.

Manager. Hongkong, December 3, 1913.

HONGKONG POLICE

THE BONGKONG POLICE VIC

TORY BALL will be held at the CITY HALL on WEDNESDAY, 17th December, 1919. Dancing to com mense. st. 9 P:M..

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Hongkong, November 24, 1919

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918) LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the first ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong on SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1819, at 11.30 o'clock, in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the 14 months ending, 30th September, 1919, and electing a Consulting Com- mittee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON DAY, the 15th December. 1919, until SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, both days inclusive..

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Hongkong, Lecember 5, 1919.

NOTICE.

́REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

Order to enable the Contractors to complete the work in connection with the above Hotel at the earliest possible date without interruption, and in order to avoid all possibility of dam- go to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, ete.

The public are requested to Mindly abstain from visiting the Hotel on and from this date until its Completion and formal opening on which due Notice will be given by vertisement in the local newspapers. The Management of the Hotel feal sure that they may rely upon the ready co-operation of the public in the fore going regard.

Dated this Sixth day of November, 1919.

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PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN BY ELECTROLYSIS,

potential. As regards the gas The principal work of the Morts purity and, to a certain extent, the Dock, Sydney, is dry-docking, slip- efficiency there is not much to choose between the acid or alkali way work and repairs, although processes, though the number of various types of vessels have been Though hydrogen is no longer re-

kilowatt hours required for the constructed for local owners, and two oil storage vessels were con quired in large bulks for the inflation liberation of 1 cub. metre of the of balloons, the cessation of hostilities two gases varies from 6 down to structed in 1912 and 1913 for the has only temporarily checked the about 3-5 at volts ranging from 36 Australian Navy. Messrs. Morrison consumption of hydiogen. In fact, down to 23. But in all these figures and Sinclair, another Sydney firm. the war, which has brought home to the decimaals become very important, are builders principally of wooden many engineers and business men and there are other features just ships; and Messrs. Poole and Steel, how easily hydrogen and oxygen an fying a careful selection of a type formerly of Sydney, have now re- be generated, will probably lead to of electrolyser. The general pre- moved to Adelaide, where they wil an increased demand for these gases, ference is for alkali cells. In the probably build vessels for the Common and to their wider appreciation in Schoop acid electrolyser, the two wealth Government line. Owing to the.. industrial processes. Where both groups of electrodes, anodes and suitability of local timber, Tasmania the two decomposition products of twice as many cathodes, are all seems to be best adapted for the con- water, hydrogen and oxygen, can be's lead tubes, open below to let auction of wooden ships. There utilised, the electrolytic generation; the acid act on the lead and the lead are two firms a: Hobart, viz., Messrs. offers advantages over the isolation wires in the tube; each tube is in- Purdon and Featherston, and Messrs. of hydrogen from water gas, which sulated: by a refractory hood; the Kennedy, engaged in the construc- is the cheaper method when worked groups are coupled in parallel. In tion of this class of vessel. There is. also a shipyard at Devosport, on a really large scale.

the Garuti alkali electrolyser, vertical In the laboratory the electrolysis diaphragms of iron separate the Tasmania, where it is understood of water is a very simple matter. iron tank into anode and cathode that two vessels for the Common. Two electrodes are placed in the compartments, the two groups of wealth line are to be built. William acidulated water of a glass cell; each iron electrodes, being again in stown Shipyard, near Melbourne, electrode is surrounded by a hood, parallel. The Schuckert electrolyser originally owned by, the Government merely an inverted test tube, eg, in uses insulating diaphragms and of Victoria, has recently been taken which the gas evolved collects; cur places iron hoods in the different over by the Commonwealth Govern- rents of about 2 volts give one compartments to collect the gases.ment. The constructional work con. volume of oxygen and two volume The Schmidt cell of the Oerlikon sisted chiefly of dredging plant, but of hydrogen. Quantitatively the re- Company is of the filter-press type, dry docking and repairs were also lation is given by Faraday's law, and the corrugated iron electrodes carried out. Two vessels are now One faraday-which is 96,540 cou are coupled in series; they are, in under construction for the Common or ampere-seconds 268 fact, bipolar as in some electrolytic Wealth line, Messrs. Grey Brothers, of Williamstown, have successfully: ampere hours, one ampere hour being co per baths and in bleach cells equal to 3,600 coulombs will liberate; Engineering." at each electrode, one gram-equivalent, f, one gram (or, 112 litres) of AUSTRALIAN hydrogen, and 8 grams (5.6 litres)

lomba

oxygen, or altogether 16.8 litres

carried out the important operation

of lengthening a vessel, and have also constructed some dumb hopper SHIPBUILD-barges, but are not now engaged in

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shipbuilding work. Hopper barges have also been constructed by Messrs. Johnson and Sons, of Melbournë. wooden ships have been built from time to time at a few establishments in Queensland, and vessels for the Commonwealth line are about to be constructed at a yard at Mary. borough. Pearling luggers are also built by Japanese labour at Thursday Island.

MONDAY, DESEMBER 8, 1919,

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions,

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

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J. "EL TAGGART, MAJAGER

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of gas, measured at Q deg' C. and 1 atmosphere pressure. The technical At Sydney there are four yards, of electrolyser, is not quite as simple as which the most important is the the laboratory cell, and the design Cockatoo Island Yard, now owned by and construction of automatic ap-the Commonwealth Government paratus which will continuously yield This yard formerly belonged to the both the gases in a pure condition of New South Wales Government, and 99 per cent, and more, practically was at first employed on general without requiring any attendance, repair work, docking and slipway have left sufficient, scope for the in work. Little or no new building

One of the most recently-construct- genuity of inventors, Glass cells being work was carried out until an order out of the question, the container has was placed for the construction of ed yards, and one which promises to be adapted to the electrolyte the light cruiser "Brisbane," and work largely to influence the shipbuilding Water itself is too poor a conduc on the hull of this vessel was well industry in Australia, is that at tor to serve as electrolyte. Either advanced when the yard was pur- Walsh Island, Newcastle, N.S.W sulphuric acid or caustic alkali, both chased by the Commonwealth Gov. The yard in situated in a coal centre of about 20 per cent. concentration, ernment, The destroyer Warrego, and is directly opposite the Broken olana are used; but the chemicals are constructed by the Fairfield Company Hill steel works, where plates, see: 0 merely to increase the conductivity at Govan, was shipped to Sydney and tions and steel castings are produced. of the water which is the real elec- re-erected at Cockatoo Island. This Its favourable location should be of trolyte and has to be replenished by work, as well as that on the "Brisbane," material assistance in the matter of feeding distilled water into the cell; having proved entirely satisfactory, cheap production. Dredgers, hopper: the Imburitics of ordinary water, appears to have given a fresh impetus harges, trawlers and other craft, have notably chlorine, would tend to to the Australian shipbuilding in- already been built in this yard, and dustry. Since that time another six steamers for the Commonwealth corrode the apparatus.

The acid is placed in lead con-light cruiser, the "Adelaide," has been line are now in course of construction. tainers, the alkali in iron cells. The launched, and three destroyers have There is ample room for extension. reversible decomposition of water been completed, as well as lightships, and a dozen berths could easily be itself would only require 123 volt, Jaunches and other small craft. There laid down if required. The yard. but the potential applied has to are at present under construction a which is under the management of overcome the resistance of the leads fleet colller and a cargo vessel for the Mr. A. M. Bomphrey, has its own and of the electrolyte and further Commonwealth Government line of engine shoas, so that vessels can be the polarisation of the electrodes by steamers. The former vessel is the constructed and supplied complete the gases liberated aulphuric acid first steel ship to be built entirely of with machinery. A considerabin is a better conductor than the alkall, Australian materialIt is designed number of launches have been built. but the supertension of the lead to carry 4,000 tons of coal, 1.250 tons cathode is decidedly higher; hence of oil, and 750 tons of fresh water for

on the whole the caustic alkali the flees as well as about 1,000 tons

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