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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930.

Phone C. 22 :.

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three inser- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three inertions.

All replies under this heading must be called for.·

FOR SALE

FOR SALE/Piano. Practically now. Iron Frame. $250 or nearest offer, Apply Trumper, 13, E. Dlock, Victorin Barracks, Hong Kong.

PIANO. Good condition. Owner leaving Colony. Genuine bargain for quick Sale. Can be seen by appoint- ment. Apply S.Q.M.S. Booker, Com- mand Pay Office, Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong.

TO LET.

LAMMERT BROS.]

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

- Public Auctions

THE Undersigned have received

Auction

ON

THE CHINA MAIL.

INDIAN SCIENTIST'S

EXPERIMENTS

A VISIT TO THE BOSE INSTITUTE

KEEPING OUT THE BUILDER

SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY TO BE SAVED

WHERE

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LIFE MECHANISM ·

→→WELCOMBE HOUSE

Calcutta, On a visit he has just A sale of particular interest to Tinstructions to sell by Public paid to the Bose Research Institute all Englishmen, took place, Strat

in Calcutta, Router's special cor-ford-on-Avon ecently, when respondent witnessed some remark-portion of the Welcombe Park able demonstrations in connection estate, which adjoins the Warwick with Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose's Road out of Stratford, was put up apparatus for recording the life for auction. Much land round growth of plants, and also in the Stratford has been sold in the past establishment of his thesis of for building purposes, but the Identical life-mechanism in the peculiarity of this offer by auction animal and vegetable kingdoms. was that the land, which borders

FRIDAY, January 10, 1930, commencing at 11 am.

at No. 8, Granville Road (Second Floor).

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Catalogue will be issued. On View from Thursday, Janu- {ary 9, 1930 (from 10 a.m.).

Torms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneer

Hong Kong, January 4, 1980.

RADIO PARTS.

TO LET.-Ofice (2 Rooma) to be let We have just from let January, 1980, In Hong following:- Kong Club (Annex). Apply. Secre tary, Hong Kong "Club.

HOME TUITION,

WESTOVER-STEVENAGE, Within an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal Individual care and attention. Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

For

(Carb. Higher Local). Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate.)

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE

BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. Ist floor. Room 5 Tel. C. 5169. Opposite entrance HK. Hotel

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaka and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and

Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES

Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel Na C. 3459, 26A, Des Voeux Road C Hon" con.

NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS;

The Yuen Wo. Seamen's Institute always has men available to ship as watch- men, seamen, &c.

employed

Our, men

are:

by the leading passenger hines. We guarantee satis faction.

unpacked the

Brown Vee. Loud Speaker Unit with 12" cone and chassis.

Ready Radio-Selectivity Unit. Dubiller Fixed Condenser. Hydia Condensers for Elimina.

tors,

etc., etc.

We have also many other parts on the way and arriving soon, Including Electric Gramophone motors and Aluminium Panels. Enquiries from :—

ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY, LTD. Bank of Canton Building,

(3rd Floor), Phone C. 4405,

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.,

OF DENMAKE

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I was lucky enough (Reator's cor the only road out of Stratford which respondent sayu) to arrive while has remained free from "ribbon" it was still light at the Boss In-development, was to be sold to keep stitute, and was conducted, before the builder out, and thus preserve the demonstration in the lecture for all time a piece of landscape thostre started, round a charming which beyond all cavil can be garden. In this garden are grown labelled Shakespeara's. the plants on which Sir Jagadis Originally, the sale was to com. Base conducts 'his expartments prise the 70 acres of the estate Around it are the laboratories and bordering the road. To prevent workshops and the quarters of the this, Mr. Archibald Flower, who is European and Indian students a. resident and a member of Not a plant, not a screw, comes the Council for the Preservation of from outside, and, the scientist's Rural-England, made a prior pur- marvellously delicate instruments chase of this portion, together with are all home-made:

the large house and ground occupied Later on, in the theatre, the re by Sir George and Lady Trevelyan velations made by Sir Jagadis Bose's until their death a short time ago. new type of "growth balance" At the auction, he offered for sale caused a sensation. Thia, ap-the house and grounds only, with parently, not only visualises to the object of obtaining a price, the perceptible growth, but makes an balance of which over the "upset" immediate measurement of the rate. figure of £12,500 will help to pur The apparatus is so exceptionally chase the roadside lots for the sensitive that it records the re-nation. Welcombe House stands in sponse of plants wireless stimula-beautiful park-like grounds and is tion, which is beyond the range of in perfect condition. It is suggest- human perception. The established that it would be suitable for a ment of the laws of growth, on school or a large hotel which the advancement of scientific From the house, one looks across agriculture depends, has been to the River Avon, and beyond, te rendered possible by this new Edge Hill in the far distance. In- cidentally, it is pointed out that Other equally astonishing ex-Mr. Flower's action in purchasing periments with animals and plants, the roadside lots has enhanced the | carried out side by side, established value of the house, because the the identical life-mechanism in the purchaser will now be certain of two kingdoms. The leg of the enjoying an uninterrupted view frog, as well as the leaf of the free from buildings. mimosa, produced simuat dancing movements under nervous excita- tion.

method.

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A plant was next made to in

scribe its

throbbing, pulsations,

* STAMBOUL ” ·

Constantinople And Its New Name

Stamboul.Prominence is given

DO YOU KNOW.

HOW?

?

Have you ever considered whether your food is cooked under proper conditions ↑

Do

you often go into the kitchen? Is it as byglenle as it should be 7 What fuel is employed ? What appliances ?

Many kitchens in Hong Kong sadly need overhauling and modernising. Does yours? Go into these ques- tions and if you find the answers unsatisfactory let us suggest that you

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Gas Cookers supplied and fixed on hire, sale or hire-purchase.

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Auto 20000,

SMALLEST BABY

A Foot In Height After Three Weeks

Budapest.-Manci B, who is believed to be the smallest baby- ever born of a normal-sized mother, has happily disappointed fears for her survival, and is now beginning to walk and talk. - When Manci, the

child of a Jewish locksmith, first

saw the light in a Budapest clinic she was found to weigh only 600 grammas (21oz.). Her weight

The resonant cardiograph recorded by the Turkish Press to the replace-rapidly decreased to 550 grammes, the characteristic effects of differentment of the name of Constantinople but she was kept in life by trans Indian drugs on the animal heart by that of Stamboul. For sixteen fusions of blood taken from her, These have been tested and varified centuries, nearly to the day, the mother and father,

At the age of three weeks Manci's

The following unclaimed tele and pulse beat under the action of grama are lying at the office of the poison appeared like the flutterings Great Northern Telegraph Com-of a creature struggling for life. pany (Limited) of Denmark:-

Hong Kong Chinese Importing Union, from Hankow.

Lolan, President Van Buren, from Shanghai.

Hoyt, Hong Kong & Shanghat Bank Bldg.. from Slamford, Conn. Wallen Teh, Peninsula Hotel, from Shanghai.

Akewple, from Shanghai. Hahakalan, from Swatow.

E. V. JESSEN,

Superintendent Hong Kong, 8th January, 1930.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the EE Telograph Co. office, Hong Kong:- Miss K. Ostashefskaya, care of V. Russakoff, 368, Nathan Road, Kowloon, from Shanghai.

Alice Silva, 8, May Road, from Macao.

.Petrosam, from Taiheku.

8. "LACK,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, January 2, 1980.

Please phone or call REALISTIC

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by leading experts of the Faculty name of Constantinople has been height was twelve and a half used in international intercourse, of Medicins in Vienna.

The heart-beat of a frog had just come to a stop, the animal being to all intents and purposes dead. The injection of a few drops of an Indian drug of high potency caused To the Turks themselves it never man from Vienna, Berlin and Paris. revival of the heart's action, and was Constantinople, but Tetanbul. The "Pesti Naplo" learns that al the animal was brought back to They tolerated its being called Con- the forthcoming sitting of the doc A large number of Indian stantinople by foreigners, and it is tors association, Manel is the sub- plants are being discovered to have with regard to foreign countries ject scheduled for debate. medicinal properties, the existence that this change of name is sup

as it was on May 11, 830, that the inches, and though she is still far Emperor Constantine solemnly in below normal size she is the pride augurated his new capital on the of the clinte in which she was born, and has been vialted by medical shores of the Bosphorus..

life.

high.

of which had never been suspected. posed to have been judged necca- Their efficacy in reviving a falling sary. heart appears to be exceptionally Curiously, the word “Istanbul" is etymologically not of Turkiah, but Further progress necessitates the of Greek origin. When they were isolation of active principles from going to Constantinople the Greeks plant extracts, as well as prolonged of the Byzantine period used to say: investigation for the standardisa

"I am going to the town

tion of the dose on human subjects. of hearing which the Turks The results would, it is bollevede accustomed to call it lead to the establishment of a new by this name, abridging the words pharmacopoeia for the relief to "Is-tan-bol." Among the Turks, humanity.

It is, however, current to explain the word Istanbul as signifying. Islam-bol, Le, the town of Islam.

A BAD IMPRESSION

British Workers Return

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An Alternative With regard to the change in the name of Constantinople to "Instan

Do Weather Changes Worry You?

bu Lloyd's agents have interview From Russia - ed the managing director of the post office there. The managing- A delegation of some afty director Informed Lloyd's agenta British, German, and French that the notice in the press workmen, who have made an exten- regarding the return or refusal, of

Now is the time of year wher sive trip in Soviet Russia, arrived letters addressed "Constantinople” at Stolbol, on the Russo-Polish is quite erroneous. No such in the aches and pains of rheuma border,

structions had been issued, and tism, sciatica, lumbago*** and Press reports published in Warsaw letters addressed "Constantinople" neuralgia attack many peoples say that delegates intentionally left will be delivered as usual. He add- The reason is that the blood has behind several hundred kilograms ed that such a step could not be become watery and the nerves of Soviet propaganda, booklets taken until the general public have got run down as a result of printed in several languages, as abroad had become aware of the the past hot season, and so the "cumbersome and useless and con-new name. An regard telegrams, "ystem is enfeebled and incapable taining gross mis-statements as to however, instructions had been sent of resisting chills and damp and the condition of workers in Soviet to foreign post offices regarding the und weather changes

pasta, They state, it is added, change of name, and consequently These aches and pains are that workers conditions there are telegrams should no longer be ad- Nature's warning that a toute la most deplorable,

dressed "Constantinople

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