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PUBLIC COMPANIES GEO. FENWIÚK & COMPANY, LIMITED.

TTCHE FOURTEENTH OK DINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be bold in the HONGKONG HOTEL, or MONDAY, the th MARCH, at. Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, declaring a Dividend, and electing Director and Anditor,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th FEBRUARY until the 9th MARCH, both days luolusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. G. WINTERBURN,

General Manager. Hongkong, 28th February, 1903.

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HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

SIXTEENTH ORDINARY

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

"VALETTA," FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

vessel are hereby informed that their Gonds aro Consignees of Cargo by the above named being handed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns, at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained s soon as the Goods are landed.

This Vessel brings on Cargo:

From London, &c., exas. Australia. From Australis, x 8.8. Rome. From Persian Gulf, ex as B. I. 9. N. and

B. & P. 8. N. Co.'s steamers. Optional Goods will be handed hora unless in- structions are given to the contrary before 3 P.M. TO-DAY, 28th inst

Goods not cleared by the 6th prox., at 4 P.M. No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in, any case whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the Go- downs for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an appointed

TANNUAL MEETING SHARE will be subject to rent. HOLDERS in the abers Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 2, Connaught Rond. at NOON, THURSDAY,

on the 1th MARCH, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1902.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOBED from the 2nd to the 12th MARCH, both days inclusive.

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 24th February, 1903.

H NGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

ORDINARY

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hour.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which data they will not be recognisel,

No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowna.

E. A. HEWETT,

Superintendent. Hongkong. 28th February, 1993. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY, LIMITED. ▼ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer "KINTUCK"

TMEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will

HALF-YEARLY C

the hold at the COMPANY'S BOTEL on FRIDAY, the 13th MARCH, 1903. at NOON, for the purpose of Receiving a Statement of Accounts of the Company to the 31st December, 1909, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss ang matter that may be competently brought before the Meeting.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to the 13th MARCH, bolh days inclusive:

By Order of the Board,

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Hongkong, 2nd March, 1963

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C. MOONEY,.

Secretory.

LUZON SUGAR REFINING COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE.

HE TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS of the Company will be hold at the OFFICES of the General Agents, Pedders Strest, on TUESDAY, the 17th MARCH, 3903, at 11 A,,, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1902.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th

MARCH, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Agente, Hongkong, 26th February, 1903. [659 CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH ORDINARY

HATUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the "OFFICES of the General Agents, on TUES- DAY, the 17th MARCH, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

1902.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th

MARCH, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Agent. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1903. [634 HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

MONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS are requested to send in a Statement of Business contributed during the Year ended -31st December, 1982, on or before the 15th instant, on which date the account will be closed.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GEO. A. CALDWELL, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1903.

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ZAN OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE

IN

PROGRESSIVE HONGKONG. THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, situate at Kowloon, within a few minutes' walk of the principal landing stages of the SECOND SEAPORT IN THE WORLD, and on the Trunk Road of the Projected HONGKONG-CANTON RAILWAY, Is FOR LEASE OF VERY EASY TERMS,

ewing to Proprietor having to leave the Colony.

The Elite Establishment, patronised by the residenta of Hongkong and Kowloon, and by the Shipping Community calling at this Far Eastorn entrepôt of trade.

An exceptionally large and showy building, capable of extension, with large piece of vacant land adjdning.

Bounded by main roads leading to the Dooke and Warehouses.

The Establishment has been conducted as a First-Class Hotel and is a profitabla investment. Is capable of still larger returns if management is taken over by person devoting exclusive

attention to the business.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1903 shote se rendily ma dirvet once, and the in- Į tricacies of the game are quickly conquered by anybody,

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

SEEKING SIGHT-- BRITAIN'S FUTURE COAL

PURE BIGE LÀI TELYOBAPHY BOEDEE. ING FOR CAST IRON→→THE TOPER'S SNAKES— THE MICROH IN BIILIARDS-ELECTRICALLY CHARGED OBJECTS—WHAETH IN RAIN,

A ratioral theory of contact electricity la hoped for as an outcome of experiments by Henchus, Russian, A polished rantallio The stful gropings of the hour sem to por surface proves to be always positively electrified tend some great physical discovery-greater and to an unpolished surface of the same substance, more far-r aching, possibly, than any-yet-pade, and a slab of wood cut parallel to the fibres is The alchemists' theory of the transmutation of always positive to one eat crosswise from the the elemente wis long ago discarded, but thoate plece. The softer of two plates of various work of recent years bas pointed more metals is positive. Non-metallic bodisa are moro and more to the unity of matter, and the positive as they become harder, but sticky and world's investigators · aro now engaged in dust-producing substances are always positive. a restless struggle to trace matter and sacrgy to their source. Already we are told vaguely that the form of energy known as electricity is made up of solid atome and that the atoms of mistter may be aggregations of these electric atoms. The motions and shapes of atoms are

The ability to forecast the rainfall of an entire season would be of enormous value. The wheat-grower in Australia, M. J. T. Mille has eslonlated, gets 12 bushels to the sore with a rainfall of 18 inches, but only 10 bushels with

The bad germs causing the bad smells of soap factories are bad_for_the skin. Vinolia Soap is sweet, pure, and emollient.

RAT

being called upon to explain not only light 15-inches, and 6g bushels with 134 inches. I GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING.

and heat but gravitation, cohesion, repulsion, and chemical and vital phenomens; and it can hardly be doubted that the new labora tories of extreme host and extreme cold, with our lately acquired acquaintance with new radiations, mast soon lead us a step nearer to a solution of the mysteries of the universe.

Jamaica, secording to Mr. Maxwell Hall, a rainfall of 56 inches produces 1,441 barrels of sugar per acre, while 79 inches Fíolds 1,559 barrels.

SHIRTS & COLLARS.

ARE PERFECT FITTING, BEING SCIENTIFI-

CALLY CUT.

The need of a dark-room in photography is obriated by Dr. Hezekiel of Berlin by the uso of a reddish coloured sylation. Immersion of | NECKWEAR. OUR PATTERNS ARE EXCLUSIVE IN THE EAST,

the plates in this for two minutes renders the

LIFE'S HAPPIEST PERIOD.

Deep coal-mining will be a problem for British engineers to solve within the present centary. At present the noxious gases and the film impervious to light, after which the develop [hent of Go deg. to 80 deg. above that at the surfaceing can be done in broad daylight,

make mining impossible at depths of 5,000 feet or more, but Mr. T. J. Davies predicts that the future mine will be 5,000 to 10,000 feet below the surface, and will be reached by electric locomotives ruaning in inclined tanuels 7, 8 or 10 miles long. In such a mine, he foresees 5,000 to 10,000 workers will live for several days

ere hereby notified that the Cargo is being discharged into Craft, and for landed at the Jodewas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., L., in both cases it will be at t'onsignees risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Craft or

proximo. Godown on and after the 2nd

has been given prior to steamer's arrival,

Optional Cargo will be landed, unless notice

Goods undelivered after the 7th instant will be subject to rent. All damaged Goods innst be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined at 11 AM. on the 7th instant, No Fire Insurance has been affected,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

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Hongkong, 28th February, 1909. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED,

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. THE Company's Steamship

"BUISANG"

ot a time.

..

Not all graumlated sugar, Mr. A. E. Hise is arpe ed to find, is contaminated with ultra- marine bine. On coming from the racnum pans, the best of the sugar is sorted out, and that lacking in whiteness is treated with bluing Mr. Bise suggests that the uncoloured be marketed as " druggists' sugar," for medicinal syrups and other purposes where purity is important.

The wireless telegraph of Herr Blockmann uses lenses of resin, glass, parafin, or other dialectric material, instead of antennas, aud is

practically □ heliograph employing invisible electro-magnetic rays instead of visible light raya. With trausmitting and receiving lenses or mirrors of moderate size, signals can be baving arrived from the above poris, Con-exchanged over an unobstructed path through signees of cargo by her are hereby informed the air to a distance of several miles. The dark that their Goods will be delivered from along raya are not intercopted by fog or by non-con- Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining ducting solids, but monutains are an obstacle on board, after 4 F.M., the 4th inst., will be that must be overcome by relays. Simultaneous landed Consignee's risk and expense into messages may be sent out and received in various Godowns at EAST POINT.

directions, the direction of arriving waves being easily determined to within one degres.

side.

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO,

General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd March, 193

"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. *GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRATTS. THE Steamship

THE

"GLENFARG"

A newly patented German process, for solder- 695 ing cast iron is claimed to give strength equal to that of the iron itself. After first pickling the surfaces with acid, the pieses aro fastened together, the joint is covered with a paste of caprons oxide and borax, and the metal is heated to reduess. The melted borax protectengainst oxidation from the air. Hesting anres the cuprous oxide to give up its oxygen, which burns the carbon of the cast-iron surfa ces, and metallic opper is separated in fine ambdivision. Hard solder is finally applied, which in melting forms an alloy with the copper, the alloy combining with the decarbu. rised surfaces of the cast iron.

having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Limited, at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

Goods not cleared by the 9th instant will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insuranco will be effected, All damaged packages moet be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the steamer's arrival, after which no claims will be recognised.

MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903.

(69) FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

THE N.D.L. Steamship

TH

"FREIBURG," Captain Prosch, having arrived from the above ports, Consignes of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undorsigned and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

The "snaker" seen by victims of delirium tremens have been made visible to French oculists iu tome recent experiments. The ophthalmos cope was used to examine the eyes of sixteen alcobolio patients, when it was found that the minute bloodvessels in the retins were sangusted. and in this condition these gently moving objects would be projected into the field of vision as something very much like black, squirming serpents.

A British engineer has calculated that when a boy of 100 pounds eats two ounces of ice in five minutes, his stomach performs heat work equivalent to nearly an eighth of a horse-power. In a machine wasting no power, it would raise the boy 194 feet high.

.

The way in which billiard playing is simplified Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless by the device of a Munich college professor has notice to the contrary be given before 5 Rastonished those who have witnessed the test. TO-DAY, the 3rd inst.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be The sides of an ordinary billiard-table ars pro- landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and vided with six mirrors, one or more of which

Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and

expense.

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PYJAMAS.

SILY AND WOOL PYJAMAS ARE A LUXURY.

ALL BOOTS ARE MADE OF ENGLISH LEATHER ON AMERICAN

LASTS A GUARANTEE OF WEAR AND STYLE.

THE BEST MAKES PROCURABLE. RANGE OF SIX DIFFERENT SHADES.

A

When an ancient Grook philosopher was BOOTS. asked which he considered was the happiest time in a man's life, he promptly selcoted the period between the ages of forty and forty-five On being pressed for the reasons which induced added: "At forty a raan, it he be intelligent. bim to make this selection, the philosopher HOSIERY & UNDERWEAR. has lost his in-dong, and looks upon the world 35 it is, not as he would like it to be. He is of youth, yet has sufficient experience never to permit bis heart to rale bis head; is moderate in all things, and wisely shy of hazardous enterprises," Oa being further asked which he considered the happiest time in a woman's life, the philosopher paused a long while, and when at last be replied he prefaced his answer by assorting that this was the more difflon't. uestion of the two. Finally he said: "When she is too old to be called a girl, and not old enough to be called a woman without the word young' protized to it. I am unable to be more definite, for the differences among women are greater than the differences among men. healthy young woman sees only the brightest side of life, and to her vision the future is illed with golden possibilities of which the mental anticipation is delightful." ·

still young enough to partake of the pleasures OUR SUMMER STOCK WILL BE ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST IN THE

The

In this pronouncement it will be noted tha the wise old Greek uses the word "healthy" in

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FAR EAST.

POWELL, LD.,

28 & 31, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGK ING. MIDZUSHIMA & CO.

COAL MERCHANTS.

No. 4, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Facing Duddel! Street).

HEAD OFFICE: No. 3, SAKALMACHI, KOBE.

a qualifying ones. Omit that word and the BRANCH OFFICES:-UCILI-HONMACHI, MOJI; MINAMI-AJIKAWA, OSAKA,

AND KAIOAN, WAKAMATSU.

AGENCY: Mn, S. NAKAYAMA, MOTOMACHI, YOKOHAMA.

CODE TIRED: A 1 & A. B. C. 4TH ED.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1903,

Ø

K. UYEMURA, MANAGER.

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sentence at once loves more than half its truth. Here is a case which will prove our statement. "From the age of nineteen until I completed my twenty-third year, I did not know what it was to be well for a single day," writes Mrs. R. TELEDRAPHIC ADDRESS: MIDZUSHIMA, Kob», Moji, Omki, Wakamatsu, and Hongkong- Huntley, of 65, Elimo Road, Ultime. Sydney, NE. W under date 19th June, 1902 -"Bat for Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup it is

Importers of Japanese Coals. Contractors of Cost to the Compagnie des Messageries doubtful if I should be horo to-day to describo my experiences. My ailment was chronic Maritimes de France. Foreign and Japanese steamers. Arsenal and Japanese Bailway Companies, and Суврергів, Words are &c. Sole Proprietors of Kumamoto and Tonours Coal Mines, Sole Agents for Kawamiya, iliustres inadequate to convey a conception of my Komatsugaura, Tenoura, Minamio, Ikejira and Kanugahata Collieries. sufferings daring that miserable period. I was then a tailor's machinist, employed in that capacity by Messrs. Gadforson & Smith, of the Royal Arcade, Sydney. Ordinery food was poison to me, and I was obliged to exist on soda-water, wilk, plain biscuits, and dry toast, Even that fare would sometimes distress me to au intolerable degree. My skin turned sallow, my eyes sank sad were surrounded by dark, hollow circles. I alept only by 8ts and starte, my slumbera being haunted and harassed by horrible dreams and nightmares. There was a dull continuous pain between my shoulders and in my right side. I grew thioner and thinner, until I was reduced to mere sk.n and bono, aud became so wesk that I could hardly walk to my place of business. Often the noise of my sewing machine, and the close air of the work- 1000, would bring on a splitting headache that maddssed me.

Then there were tits of retching and vomiting, which troubled me with great frequency. When there was nothing in the atomsel to come up, I would retch and strain until I became exhausted and faint, when my workmates would improvise a couch for me with their desks and jackets, and I would lie for bours unable to move. I was treated by three doctors; but I believe the medicines they proscribed irritated my stomach and did me more harm than good. After four years of misery I was persuaded to try what Mother Beigel's Curative Syrup could do for me, and within a few days began to mend at such a rate that everyone who knew me was amazed at the improrement in my condition. The vomiting cease, the hae of health returned to my cheeks, my eyes brightened, and at the end of two months I was in every respect thoroughly (58 cured."

"THE EAST OF ASIA."

(Published Quarterly.) YONTAINING Articles of Special Interest. Profusely Illustrated, descriptive of the People, Customs, &o, of the Far East.

can be turned down when play is to be made,0°

and the advantage rests in the fact that any

No Claims will be admittel after the Goods image is reflected in the same angle in which have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining it falls on the mirror, just as the billiard-ball undelivered after the 10th inst. will be subject rebounds from the cushion in the same angle as that of striking. The mirrors show at once the different ways in which a shot can be made. Even the tyro is aid to make difficult indirect

to rent.

All broken, abafad, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be

examined on the 10th inst., at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Office.

1797 Hongkong, 3rd March, 1903.

NOTICE.

H. European Bakery, bags to notify bis WEISMANN, Proprister of the Hongkong Customers and the public in Inspection of Books allowed to any one general that he will OPEN on lat MARCH, making bona fide Offora for Lease, &c.

or as soon after as possible, a DEPOT in For Fall Particulars, apply to-

connection with his Bakery, at No. 13, WEL. LINGTON STREET (next door to Ramsey H. RUTTONJEE,

& Co., bicycle shop, D'Aguilar St.), to enable D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong his customers to more easily obtain their Bread

[651 Hongkong, 26th February, 1903.

and Cakes, &o.

NOTICE.

TE the undersigned undertako to REMOVE OLAY from any site close to TSIN-SA-Tart at a very low price.

Landlords who wish to have their properties derellad please apply to

HIN TAI.

Contractor,

No. 81, Queen's Read Fast. [680

Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903,

This Depot will be fitted up as a Refreshment Boom, and Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Mineral Water, Ice Creamy, Cakes, &e, will be always ready.

Mr. WEISMANN has bad experience in the Pastry Cook and Refreshment business in Australia and America at woll as in Europo and thoroughly understands the requirements

H. WEISMANN. Hongkong, 14th February, 1903. 1597

of the business.

When Your Joints Are Stiff

and muscles sore from cold or rheumatism, when you slip and sprain a joint, strain your side

or bruise yourself, Perry Davis' Painkiller will take out the abreness and fix you right in a jiffy. Always have it with you, and use it freely. USE

Painkiller

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