·10°
WEATHER REPORT.
July 27, 101, 20-Local signs! Na +
25. 19. 00s-Warning to kong and Phalien & Typbron in to miles of Lat. 190 N. Leng. 1150 direction W..W
July 23, 193. 18m-No returns from panese stations.
Pressore has increased slightly to moderately over Formosa and N. Luzon. decreased slightly to moderately
The depression of Erpaq icated about 100 miles to the east of aluan, moving slowly W.N.W
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours, ading at 10 am today, nes inch. Lutal since January Tet, 46.75 inches, against an average of 4 inches
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at: Boos on July 3rd.
1-Hongkong to Gap Rock. E and SE witds, strong, moderating: Candy, aquelly, dis
1.-Facpor Channel. The cards as No. 1.
Sveto ww: of Chios boweon The same as Fin-ekong and Lan.ocks
No. 1.
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS "AND PASSENGERS,
VESSELS DUE
FROM SHINGĦII.
Jols
3-
148 F.
14.-P&O
17.-P. O. 19.-B. F. 21.-B., F.
Elpener.
Dencalion.
Dilwäre.
Orestes. Nellore. Pyrrhus.
Demcdocus.
Inaba Mars. Dunera Prometheus Alcinous Dania. Pat Ling.
Protezillaur. Ningchow. Rhesus. Achilles- Mentor.
Aug.
PS.-P. & 0.
-R F 3.-B. F.
-16.-B. F.
24.B F
30.-B. F
Sept. $.-B. F.
-BF. $0.-B. F.
FROM JAPAN,
Tetorola Maru.
-South coast of China between July 47. Y. K. Fongkong and Kaizen. The same as
No.3
ROYAL OBSERVATORY,
LUNGKANG, DAILY WHALEMA
Sation.
REPORT.
JULY 2. 1890.—ak.
Ilour.
Baromatar
at Don Lovel.
Wad.
Temperaturn.
ffumidity,
Direction.
Weather.
Vivostock & 276 63
Hex uro...
Hakodate
Trio
5
Eochi
Kagoshima
Thi
Bonin Island
Weihaiwei. 82.29 50
Farkow
Icheng ..... Kicking.. Changaba Shanghai Gatzlaff Kharp Pk
P.&O. B. F
12.-B. F.
12.-B. F.
16.-P. & 0. 16.-B. F. 17.-P.&O.
-P.. 7.-P. & O.
. F.
Aug. 6-E
7.-P. & O. 9.-P. & 0. 10-P. & 0. 11.-P. & O. 16.-P. & 0. 23-B. F. 32-P. &
Sept. 20-B. F. Oct. 18-5. F.
Gregory Apear.
Helenus.
Knight Templar. Talthybius. Deranka Buryades St. Albans.
Torilla. Lahore. Lasmedos. Takada. Kalyan Jeypore. Eastero.
Arratoon Apear- Bellerophen.
Plassy- Cyclops.
Titan.
FROM MINILA.
Aug. 2. B. F.
Taltbykius.
» FROM CALCUTTE
July 5.-P. & C.
Torilla
10-N. Y. K. 17.-P. & O. 23.-P. & 0.
Muroran Maru. "Takeda
Arratoon Apear.
FROM BOMBAY,
July 4-P. &0.
Dil wars. 14.-P. & ¡0. Duners.
FROM JAŽL
July 10-J.C.J.L. Tjivala
15.-J.CJL. Tjimanoek.
19.-J.C.J.L. Tiliwong.
FROM MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY.
boku"
19.
29.72
1
одр
Jels 10A "O.
Changsha
23-P. & 0.
Easter.
ichti Finan Koshun. Fescadores.
Canton
Hongkong.
Gap Rock..
Kacao
Brebox... Ba
Pssio... Hot...
Fouben78.
for-rpe.
QSt. James
Dagupan
Legaspi
29.
"
330 18 29.75 80
T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
Fongkong Observatory, Jrīgs, 1820.
FROM VANCOUVER.
July 15.-C.P.0.5. Empress of Japan.
FROM SEATTLE.
July 27.-D. F.
Aug 17.-B. F. Sept 21.-B. P. Oct.-B. F. Nov. 20-B.
Ixion Piolesilaus Tyndareus. Ix oz. Talthybias.
#
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
1. BASCHETZE, reduced to 35 degrees July 5.-T. K. E. Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in
eches, tenth and hundredths
5.-P. M. S.
17.-C. M. S.
2. TRIPIATURE, in the shade In de- Aug. 1.-T. K. K gree Fahrenheit
HOMIDITY, in percentage of saturs. Mor, the besidity of air saturated with macisture being "100.
DIRECTION OF WID, to two points.
Word, according to 4. FORCE OF
Beadford Balo.
ESTATE OF WEATHER, b bine sky, o detached cloud, d drizzling rain, f fog, - gloomy, h bail, I lightning, o overcast #passing showers, q squall, r raÍN, YNDOW.
thander v visibility w daw, wek
7. Ham in izeker textbs and hon dredths. "
HONGKONG TIDES.
"Tin Hide-table siren below has been
4.-P. M. S.
Kores Mara.« Colombia. Nile.
Teoyo Mara, Venezuela.
FROM LOS ANGELES.
Jely 25-LA.P.N. West Montops Aug. 30.-L.A. P.N. West Hits. Sept. 12-LA.P.N. Vizita. Oct
7-LAP.N. West Hixon.
FROM LONDON.
July 12.-J. M.
12-P.&O. 13.-P. & O, 15.-J. M. 18.-N. Y. K. 28.-J. M. 29.-K.Y. K. Aug, 4-P. & 0.
Glestare Kalyan. Jeypore. Glen moy. Shidroka Mara. Giersands. Kaga Mard. PLEBY.
FROM LIVERPOOL.
setomatis tide-reonding machine in the July 3-B F
fering the years 1909-9,
piled at the National Almanse Office
in London from the result of the analysis
of onservations taken by means of an
Water Police Basin at Tatan Rha Teul
the ter of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart which has been found to he 4 feet
frishog below mean sow-level
The zero of the table corresponds with Ang. S.-N. Y. E.
To obtain the depth of water on the Mor zange at the Victoria Vaval Yard Add a feet 4 inches, and on the gaige af I won't. Dock, Aberdeen 10 feet irches to the height gires in the table
"July 3 to B. 190.
THOR ATTER
tomong
TIM
Flowkwex Man Leight
Tae
0.-B. K 28.-B. R. 30,--B. F.
18.-B. F. 20.-B. F. 21-B. F.
-BT. $1.-B. F. 11-B F.
Pywhoa. Ballerophon. Prometheus. Ningehow. Nato Mara.
Lyens
Achilles. Mentor. Knight of theGarber. Eurypyles, Ajax
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FRIDAY, July 2
Shanghai-Per ICHANG..
MONDAY, July 4.
Japan-Per YETOROFU MARU.
Straits-Per LAHORE
Straits-Par DILWARA.
Japan-Per MADRAS,
TUESDAY, July 3.
Straits-Fer TORILLA.
Shanghai-Per SINKIANG.
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.
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2p.m.
Straits and Bangkok-Per CHAKSANG,
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Shargbai and North China-Per YING-
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The programme includes:-
PATHE'S LATEST BRITISH GAZEITE "THE SILENT
MYSTERY"
Episode One.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN
"SUNNYSIDE"
--and
MADAME PETROVA IN
'THE LAW OF THE LAND '
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PEARL WHITE
IN
"THE BLACK· SECRET”
A Serial of a Thousand Sensations (15 episodes).
TO-NIGHT—at 7.15 & 9.15 performances.
DYEING THE TREES.
The statement by Mr. Alfred J.{
Shanghai and North Chins-Per SIN Winslip, of the Cambridge School of
FIANG,11 6.I.
FRIDAY, July 9.
Forestry, that it will soon be possible to grow square trees is very interest- ing in view of some new American
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Per
MATHONG, I pm Fhilippine Islands-Per TAMING, experiments.
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OIL BURNING ENGINES.
EXPLEIMEXTS ON TWO
RAILWAYS.
If the locomotives which have been designed for "the use of oil fuel by the North-Western and Great
These bave demonstrated the fact that it is quite a simple matter to Central Rallways answer expecta- produce wood of almost any colour tions, it is probable that a consi while the tree is actually alive. Soderable number of existing railway equipped with that when the tree is feiled the wood engines will be
is green," orange, blue, red, or what- oil-burning apparatus. Both the ever shade may have been desired companies named are undertaking pioneer work of considerable impòr- *Correspondence bearing vessel's name right through to the core.
tance, and are testing the most modern apparatus for liquid fuel
only.
CRYLON RAILWAY.
A CIVILITY CRDER.
The plan, which is really quite simple, is on the following lines
In the spring of the year a hole is burning, as well as some of the bored right through the tree trunk newer forms of fuel
from one side to the other. The cut The possibility of putting oil-fired is made a foot or so above the ground locomotives into regular work was level and it is arranged so that it tested on British railways several, slants slightly downwards.
Sul
The
The General Manager has issued diameter of the bore is three or four years ago, but the high price of oil inches and the lower opening is closed fuel in comparison with coal militated against any general adoption of this the following circular-
From cases that have come unwith a plug.
A strong aplline dye sointion of method at that time, The present der my notice recently, I regret to have come to the conclusion that there the desired colour is prepared and high price and scarcity of coal has is not impossible that we te on the is a marked lack of consideration and this is poured into the hole until it is entirely changed the situ and it courtesy on the part of a certain
The dye mixture is caught up by eve of important develop pots. It section of the responsible staff of the Railway in its dealings with the public. the rising sap of the tree, and very is expected that a full statement of What the world must have been "In this connection, I am glad to soon the newest layers of wood the subject, and some figures as to Three and a half million pounds of
about before newspapers were invented is record my opinion that this grave (those just below the bark are the relative cost of working with sterling in gold, worth
pictured by a writer in a Berlin paper, defect is limited to a small proportion stained. The amount of dye solution coal and oil fuel, will be made public $12,480,000 at present rates of ex- change, arrived at San Francisco on discussing the state of affairs in that of the staff and that the majority of which a tree will take up varies with at an early date. May 27, consigned to the Federal Re city during the big strike that shut off our station staff realizes its obvious the different kinds; in some cases a
coloured and can be varnished or in maintaining the reputation for others hardly this amount a week serve Bank of New York, by the nor only light and water but even the duty to the public, and loyally assists gallon a day has been absorbed, in American tramp steamer Charlton daily publications.
Rumour, speeding from lip to tip, courtesy that the Department used will be accounted for.
In any case, sooner or later (the polished right away without any to enjoy.
Curiously, the doses of dye mixture Hail," bound from Far Eastern ports.
was the only news and the distortions
Civility costs nothing, and. It is business may take a number of further treatment. ....~.. to Havana.
By Federal Reserve Bank officials it assumed, even when it had a basis
is green, in a general way, although The many friends and well in San Francisco, it was stated to be of truth, as well as its total lack of Just as easy to treat the public with weeks) the dye at last penetrates to have no marked effect on the growth are many little ways, outside of the the whole of the wood is uniformly of the tree as a whole. The foliage wishers of the genial and popular the largest consignment ever received foundation in most cases, makes this courtesy as to be discourteous. There the very heart of the trunk. Then proprietor of the Palace Hotel, Kow-jby them from the Orient. According writer exclaim : :" No wonder, Seizard and fast rules of the Depart coloured in the desired shade; snor now and again slight traces of the 16on, Mr. James H. Oxherry, will be to the marine department of the Cham- fried lived then! No wonder the ment, in which a station officer can seeing that the dye has penetrated delighted to hear of his recovery from ber of Commerce, it is the largest World, was filled with dragons, and assist the public, and to render such into the very tissue of the wood, it dye can be observed in the reina of
but a pleasure.
Thus the timber is permanently to be held up in the woody tissues. a severe injury to his foot, which single shipment of treasure ever lemies, and witches, and the seas with assistance should not only be a duty, is quite impossible ever to get it out, the leaxes. Most of the colour seems
"Invite the co-operation of the was broken about six weeks ago on brought into the port of San Francisco mermaids and sea serpeants !w''...
staff in restoring the good name of
Printed and Published for Test CONCERNED BY GEOKOB WILLIAM
vadame Street, Hongkong. -the golf links at King's Park. He is
CADE BURNETT, Edor, No. 8,
Akita Maru. July 6.-N. Y. K.
Bazi. 25.-E. Li Ang IL-N. Y.K. Caloutta Har
It is understood that the treasure
able now to be about with the aid of was taken to San Francisco in the
a crutch and expects to be entirely ordinary course of exchange business, with the national-war-Endcoredness of the Department in connection with well within a short time.
and not for any purpose in connection any power to America,
i its dealings with the public.
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