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HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China having Huropean taught workmen. Equal to Home Work.

BUILDERS

KANG ON,

Contmetor; 30, D'Aguilar Street. Local and Coast Port Buildings, Timber, Brick

und Granito.

Mechanicsengaged, Estimates given CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS, &c,

THE PHARMACY.

10. Queen's Road Central. Family and Dispensing Chemists, Wines, Spirits and

Cigars

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, JUNE 14тä, 1901

[ of a strong permanent magnet, and connection is made between the coils of the ring and a

▲ SOUND-FINDER AND PROJECTOR-MOTIVE | special form of voltmeter, whose gradnations POWER FOR CANAL-BOATS—MOULDED GRAN- | ure adjusted to correspond to speeds of the wind ITE—BORING TO THE POLE—FRUIT ANTIS- 20 messured by the anemometer. : EPTICS - ACONRACY. IN BCBEWALA DE- VELOPING BEE-VEGETABLE BUTTER AN ELECTRIC ANEMOMSTER — FOR SLIPPERY SHORE-A CODLIN-MOTH DESTROYAN

A "leather-sole flaid," proposed by E. Soxblot for proventing slipping, consists of 50 gramines of thick turpentine, 200 grammes of colophony. 50 grammes of beusins and 200 grammes of A new apparatas of Mr. Sherard Cowper, alcohol, the misture being allowed to stand in Coles, a London physicist, by designed to localissa bottle in a warm place until the turpentine and colophony have dissolved. The solution in -sounds rapidly and to project sounds to a great distance. It consists essentially of an upright applied several times to the shoe-soles. Not concave inirror, suitably zoounted, in the forms only is the slipperiness overcome, but the

leather is preserved.

of which is fixed one end of a short rubber tubo, a monthpiece at this end of the tabe being turned

toward the mirror while one at the other end is

free. The mounting onables the operator to raise or lower the mirror, or to tarn it toward THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

any point. To find the direction from which Chemiets and Draggiate, High-class Aera-

ted Waters, Dealers in Photographic any sound comes, it is simply necessary to listen

Requisites, Queen's Road.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1859,

Every Household Requisito. Depot for Eastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

a. Queen's "Road Central. JEWELLER

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS.

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40,

Attempts to combat the codlin-meth by

Discovery of the

HATCH. MANSFIELD & CO.. LD.

Vineyard or Districi. BEAUJOLAIS

Good body and flavour. POMMARD...

A bije generona sweet wing, CHAMBERTIN...

PORT.

OLD IN WOOD.

Per Doz.

BURGUNDY.

Por dos. Perdon, Slutage

bota. jligtą. 1894 $150, $13.50

HUNTS.

1893

RUBY

1893

20.00 22.00

40.00 42.00

Very old and saft.

BYASS'S.

*

OLD PORTUGAL

Per Dat

815.75

STILL.

15.75

BODENHEIM

Plelo Jabel; a nice light

Wight wine

20.00

NIERSTEIN

Superior; a soft pretty dinner wine.

31.50

LIEBFRAUMILCH

The

A full soft wire of inagnificent properties.

SHERRY, FROM THE WOOD..

Very Bght and delicate. PALE DEY GOLDEN

PIN

l'a round wine with good favour. AMONTILLADO Dry, fine favour. VERY FINE OLD BROWN

Exquisitely soft; over 20 yener in ́wook.

For Price Lists, &c., apply to-

breeding a pertain small fly will probably he 1999] made in Now Zealand. parasite was brought about by the observation that the proportion of sound apples increased

ou plantations where spraying to destroy the at the free mouthpiece while the mirror is moved until the sonnd roaches its grastest in-cudlin-moth caterpillars had been discontinued. tensity; and for sending forth speech or other Addled codlin-moth eggs in graat aambers were found, atid in some of them were eggs of sounds the free muthpiego serves as a transmit-

the parasite. ter. Conversation over a long distance may be carried on between operators having duplicates of the apparat 110.

In the Barcroft system of propelling barges ou canals, which is now coming into use on Aloaded propeller is placed on each side of the

some English waterways, a sixty-inch throo

Watson's Building. Queen's Road,

at Shanghai, Munile. Paris and Iloilo

PHOTOGRAPHERS

A FONG,

The largest and most complete Sundie in Views, Hongkong. Established 1859.

Enlargements, Tvory Miniatures, Oll Paintings, &c.; In House Street.

MEE CHEUNG,

Ice House Street, Top Floor. Permanent Enlargements, Groups, Views, etc; Devel opment Works, Amatonrs' Requisites

M. MUMEYA. JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements und also solouring Photos and reitet Photos, Viows of China and Manila, Work long for Amateurs; No. 8, Queen's

Road Central.

PRINTING

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE. Proofs road by Englishmen.

STOREKEEPERS

F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Navy Contractors Shipshandlers, Sail raakers Provision and Coal Morchants, Praya Central, next Hongkong Hotel.

BISMARCK & CO.

Xavy Contractors, Ship Chandlers, Provision and Coat Merchants, Sull- makers. c. Fresh Water supplied to

Vessels in the Harbour

EWONG SANG & CO.,

MORE & SEIMUND,

rudder, and the two are driven in opposite directions by a small engine placed on deck just in front of 10 storn-post. Motion is transmitted by vertical shafts geared to the engine and the propellers. The serows may be removed during loading and unloading ; and as the boiler weighs but 2,600 pounds the addition to the lord carried is small, white the machinery does not interfere with the cargo or with the pasings of bridges and Jecks. The gentle metion of the propeller. blades in giving a speed of five or six miles

an hour does not wish the banke.

Natural granite pulverised and shaped by pressure and heat was used at first for Grumental blocks. It has been since found serviceable for electric insulation, and its resistanon to naids and chlorine have now given it a place for Bring sulphite digestors for treating wood-palp.

In the explosions at Vesuvius last year, block, of lava were thrown as bigh as 1,800 feet, and Prof. Matteucci estimates that one, weighing thirty tons, required 610,000 horse-power to eject it.

!

Among the startling engineering suggestions of the day is Quit of a tube railway to the North Pole-not as a commercial venture, but as a

scientific solution of a difficult problem regne Jews of cust Starting from some point in Shipohandlers Seilmakers, Hardware,

Enginer Tools, Brass and Iron Mer Greenland, the tunnel would run is a direct

eints, iff, Des Vorur Road.

Bon just beneath. the sarfum of the ground, and would have stations at certain intervals, with larger ones on the banks of channels or straits. where it would be necessary to build ferry boats and provide for their bousing in winter. With the completed line, tuo supraer explorer should be able to reach the Poke and return within rek. The motive power would be slectricity, hat we are not told how this would be obtained. In case of accident, the traveller wonld propel himself homeward by mannal labour.

and 4, Der Vieux Road. Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Biggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers: Sole Agents for Shipowners Composition ("Grey- hound Brand and Blundell, Spence & Co.'s Composition. TAILORS

R. HAUGHTON & CO..

Naval Military and Court, H, Queen's Rond,

Opposite Kuhn's Curio Store.

TOBACCONISTS

D. S. DADY BURJOR, 108 FILIPINOS," Importer of the Best Manila Cigars; 25,

Pottinger Street.

WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO..

10. Queen's Road: Central. Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European exports, at moderate rates.

Io examination of the Baids of 8,042 stomach, Dr. J. H. Kellogg has found 2.8 per cout. to contain bacteria. None exist when the food has boon sterilised. Hydrochloric acid seems to be less important in giring antiseptic power to the stomach than has been supposed, but it was proven that a frait dietary will sterilise the stomine through the action of the vegetable acids. In some cases of bacterial derangement, an exclusive frait diet for two days to a week may be necessary. Any acid fruit may be employed, and is more active raw than cooked. Ripe bananas, and even ripe olives, though

EYE-SIGHT, without marked germicidal power, may be

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Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Opticien, of London and Calcutta, muy be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16. Queen's Road Central (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL), Business Hours:....

9am to pm.

Great proportion of cataracts and diseases affecting thess advancing in life occur to those living some deficiency in the construction of the eyes the many years of Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.

Constantly roonrring headaches, spells of disness when reading, wenk eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi- cáte a deficiency in the form of the cys requir ing Glasses only to correct and euro.

included in the fruit dietary with advantage.

The most perfect screws in existence wore

How eye-strain can cause naso-bleeding is a mystory, Yet Dr. Benj, Edizon reports a coas of when a defort of vision was remedied by suitablo" frequent attacks of nose-bleeding" whioli ceased

glasses.

THE COST OF WAR.

NOTICES TO CONSIG NEES

FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND

SINGAPORE.

$20.00 THE H.A.L. Steamship

Very the old tawny ; about 30 years in waist,

HOOKS.

Selected grapen.

29.30

Vintage.

1895 $10.50

1895 16.75

1889 29.50

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, AGENTS.

THEODORO VAFIADIS & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

HIGH CLASS

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES. FACTORY, CAIRO (EGYPT) CLOSE TO HE. NUBAR TASHA'S PALACE.

BRANCHES.

20, Esplanade Read.. RANGOON 72. Merchant Street.

4. Dalhousie Square. LONDON........19, Basinghall Street, C.E. ALWAYS FRESH AND RELIABLE AT THEIR AGENTS

From the day when Achillon fusted three days and nights over the body of Patroctus skin in the ten yours' zinge before the atout BOMBAY wall of Troy, have we learned of war's sorrows. CALCUTTA

The Duke of Wellington wept like a child when he surveyed the bloody, hard-won field of Waterloo. Methuen, it is suid, broke down at the ghastly sight of Magersfontein, and returned to lus tent that the mm might not witures bís grief.

***Who dead is must be harici," says Homer, 783-1] und, we might al,win it is must die."

So thought Private John Smith, living now at 19, South Uxbridge Street, Burton-on-Trent. The Aurenia steamed out to the Cape on December 27th, 1899, with this soldier aboard her (that was infure she ricamed back with the gallant C.I.V) and in telling no of his trials, on August 20th, 1900, Frivate Smith says that that of his duty was pleasant enough.

part

cota-

"Shortly after Earl Roberts' fumous murch into Kronstadt, we were stationed between that town and Jacobsdal to guard the line of o munication. Towards the end of April, I was laid low with that fell disease enteric fuver. It has laid low more mes than all the shot and **There wore hundreds of men down with it.

shell that was ever tired by r Artillery. geveral weeks I was in the

ter hospital. My stomach was converted into a manufactory of torturing pains, and I grew us weak and helpless as a newborn babe.

For

MESSRS. KRUSE & CO.,

FIRST CLASS MATERIAL.

HONGKONG.

FOR SALE.

STRONGEST CONSTRUCTION......

SAFES

CAN COMPETE AGAINST THE BEST MAKES IN THE WORLD.

FOR PARTICULARS, APPLY TO

HOTZ, S'JACOB & CO.

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NOW ON S SALE.

THE

"SAMBIA," Captain Schilt, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are horoby requested to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediata delivery of their Goods from alongside,

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 5 P.M., TO-DAY.

Any Carge impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and. expense.

No Clainis will be admitted after the Goods have left the Gołowus, and all Goods romaining undelivered after the 19th June will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 19th Jnue, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has boon effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Offico, Hongkong, 12th Jane, 1901,

$1492

THE PORTLAND AND ASIATIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

FROM PORTLAND (OR.) AND PORTS. THE

THE Company's Steamship

***INDRAVELLI,"

having arrived from the above ports, Cou- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to sond in their Bill of Lading for countersignatura. and take immediate delivery of their Goods wx ship or from alongside.

Any Carge impoding the discharge of the venel will be tanda and stored at Consigneos" risk and expens

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents.

Hongkong, 11th June, 1901.

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FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

HE H.A.L. Steamship

THE

"G. FERD. LAEISZ," Captain Fuchs, loving arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are heroby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded us notice to the contrary be given before 3 P.M. TO-DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whorf and Godown Compasy, Limited, and stored at Consignees risk and

expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

***I was for days unconscious, but gradually CHRONICLE AND DIRECTORY lave left the Godowns, and all Grouts main-

recovered suficiently to be insulided home."

Yet the suffering of Private Smith was not in June," he says, and shortly afterwards over. I went aboard the Hospital Ship Nineveha

sailed for hote. During my short stay in South Africa, I lost over 20lbs. in weight. Nothing tha'I look relived the constant vomit- in, or increased my strength."

After," he says, "I had been home a few daye, my brother, who is an englisdriver on the Midland Railway-not of an armouret train-ivisci ma to try Mother Saigel's Syrup. I got a bottle. I found it was doing me good. all kinds of food. My appetite is The vomiting used, and I was able to enjoy

enormous."

**Altogether I have taken four bottles of Mother Suigel's Syrup, and gladly give you permaission to use and publish my statement. This oyrap is a fine tonic and a great medicine for the stomach. I can especially recommend it to soldiers returning from South Africa in fasule health.

Wollington know the bitter cost of war in 1815.

Methuen in 1899 and 1900,

And the hero of this unrrative in 1900, too. "Green vomit,"

is was a personal cost. Charles Reado writes, "luid her sickly hand on

him."

A broken mau-Until the kindly offices of Seigel's Curative Syrup put him on the step- ping-stone of first wealth," which is health.

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NOTICES OF FIRMS

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

MANCELL, the Company's Secretary, from the Colony, Mr. J. A. TARRANT is Authorized to Sign For SECRETARY,"

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Mangers. Hongkong, 13th June, 1901.

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wade by the late Mr. T. C. Sehneider, DURING the Absence of Mr. A. II. mechanician at the Johns Hopkine University, The machine for the extremely tins rulings of Prof. Rowland'a spectrum. gratings required screws E foot or more feng of the greatest possible accuracy throughout their fength, and the four screws ground havn ubówn

No

appréciable error under the severest tests to which they could be put.

The stingless boy, of which several colonies. have been discovered in the island of Montser- rat in the Wast Indios, will be an object of much interest, as it is believed that its honey- producing capabilities will greatly improved in modern hives.

By exposing a metal plate to the violet rays of the spectram, M. Naudon has obtained X

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTA-rays from sunlight, without electricity, CLES only after testing the sight.

ADVICE FREE.

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WA. H

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CO

DEALERS IN **

MONUMENTS.

MARBLE AND GRANITE

The production of coconut-butter at the factory in Mannheim, which dates from 1986, has now reached about ten tons per dag. This material, which is used as a substitata for butter

and lard, is claimed to contain 99 per cent, of vegetable fat with only a trace of water, while DESIGNS & PRICES on APPLICATION | ordinary butter consists of 85 per cent, of fat

at No. 1. Queen's Road Eest, Hongkong

Hongkong. 17th October, 1899.

WING CHEONG,

Dealers in

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und nearly 15 per gont, of water. The price in Germany is about half that of butter, 'T'ho ensaaint-butter keeps for thres or feur months in a cool place, and its wholesomeness and

NOTICE.

THE INTEREST And. RESPON HILITY of

RICHARDS in our firm at this Port, Colombo, and London, CEASED by Mutual Content on the 5th inst

THE INFREDERICK, EDWARD

DOD WELL, CARLILL & CO.,

Foochow Fouchow, 7th June, 1901.

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THE NEED

OP

MUNICIPAL FREEDOM

IN

HONGKONG.

BY

"SCRUTATOR.”

With Lesling Articles and Correspondence

for baking and cooking, especially for hospitals thereon Reprinted from the “HONGKONG and army camps. The processes by which the

JEWELRY, PEARLS, DIAMONDS, | digestibility are giving it a steady gain in favour

CURTOS, JADESTONE ORNAMENTS, BRONZES andCARVED IVORY WARE, FINE SILKS and GRASSCLOTHS General Exporters of

ANISEED and CASSIA OILS, &c., c., Stock always on Hand.

AN INSPECTION IS RESPECTFULLY BOL101TED. Note. We bag to announce that we also Buy all kinds of Čurios at Moderate Prices.

1 & 3, D'AQUILAR STREET

(Behind Hongkong Dispensary), Hongkong, 18th April, 1901.

fat of the coocanut kernel is freed from from DAILY PRESS" and "CHINA MAIL." acids and other substances are mostly secret.

·

Readings of the wind's force are transmitted Price 20 Centi per Copy or Six Copies for $1. electrically to a distance by a new French instrument. The spindle carrying the revolving

FOR

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS

SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA,

PHILIPPINES, BORNEO, &c.,

FOR

190 1.

THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL ISSUE.

The DIRECTORY covers the whole of the ports and cities of the Far East, from Nether- lands India to Siberia, in which Europeans reside.

Not only is the Directory as full and complete in each case as it can be rude, but oach Colony Port, or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIPTION, carefully revised each year, most of which will serve as accuratè GUIDES FOR THE TOURIST, giving every detail in connection with the places their. History, Topography, &c., &a.

The Information in theso Doscriptions, consisting of a hundred interesting articlos, paskod with facts concisely set ont, and containing statistics of the TRADE of Each Country and Port, would alons suffice to fill a large volunie.

COALS

JAPAN

THE

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(OR MITSUI & CO.

New

HEAD OFFICE 43, SAKAMOTO-DRO, Toxyo. - LONDON OFFICE:-34, Los STaRET, E.C. HONGKONG OFFICE :--6, ICE HOUSE STREET,

BRANCH OFFICES:

York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Haukow, Chefoc, Tiantain, Newchwang, Fort Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamatsu, Karaton, Nagasaki, Kuchino- tsu, Sasebo, Miike, Hakodats, Taipeh, &c.

Telegraphic Address for all the Offices: “ MITSUL”

A.B.C. and A 1 Codes nɛod,

CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy, Arsonals and Railway Bureau!! Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Milke, Tagawa and Yamano Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Fukumo, Hokoku, Ichi-mura, Kanada, Kishima, Mannoura, Onqura,

Otsaji, Sonoda, Tsubakare, Yoshinotani, Yoshio, Ynaokibara, and ather Coal Mines.

· UNTOUCHED BY HAND.

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MELLIN'S

FOOD

and

INFANTS

INVALIDS, When prepared is similar to Breast Milk.

ing undelivered after the 17th inst, will be subject to runt.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods aro to be left in thus Gedowns, where they will bo examined on the 17th inst., ut 3 F.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 10th Jaue, 1901,

ONE

FOR SALE

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SECOND-HAND

HOE NEWSPAPER

PRINTING

MACHINE.

PRINTING A SHEET 7 BY 40

INCHES.

TH

HIS Machine is in good condition, and

is being sold, as it has been raplessed with a

Larger and Quicker Machins..

Apply

MANAGER, Hongkong Daily, Press Offles.. Hongkong, 1st April, 1901

MACHINERY

and

SUPPLIES

Engines, Boilere, Pumpa. Wood Worting and Iron Working Machinery.

Sew Mille and saw ill Supplies.

zugar and Kien ndill Machtwory,

Mining and Milling Machinery.

Write for Catalogues and Prices of what yon require. PARKE & LACY CO., 21 and 2, Fremont Strest, San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.

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1901

190 1

MAIL TABLES.

Contains:

TE Cadished at the Daily Press Office English Maila, homeward and outward French

Gorman 17,

Canazlian

Parcel Port

Calendar for 1901

15

That is more information than is given on one printed in London for which fifty cents is charged. The price of the locally printed correct card is 20 cents on paper, 30 cents on ⚫ardboard Supplied only for cash by Daily Prea Office or the Booksellers.

CARTRIDGES.

NOBEL'S SPORTING BALLISTITE. Absolutely Smokeless and Water-resisting THE BEST NITRO-POWDER IN THE WOELD, PRICE OF 12-BORE CARTRIDGES :—

with With Powder

Londed

Powder only. ad 1 oz of Shot.

Primrose Cases $5.65

6.25 Ejecter Brass Cases, 6.90

Pegamoid Савея

$7.40

For

8.00

2.65

www.

On Sale at Local Newsagents and H.

1056

cupa of un ordinary anemometer also carries a BUTTONJEE's Kowloon Storo, small Gram:se ring, which revolves in the field

Hongkong, 30th May, 1901.

MELLIN'S FOOD WORKS, PECKHAM, LONDON, ENGLAND.

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per cent discount on orders of 1,000 and over.

Apply to

WM. SCHMIDT & CO., Guamakers,

Hongkong.

Hongkong, 27th July, 1897.

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