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THE

ROBINSON PIANO

COMPANY, LIMITED

ΝΟΤΕ.

ENTIRELY

NEW STOCK

ARRIVING.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

A S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

A NEW ILLUSION-RADIUN

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES3, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1ST 190* SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. Mercury was found in the dead animals, and also in many meadows and gardens, and the AND COMETS—A presence of the poison is attributed to a re- DISEASE cont explosion of a factory for fulminate of OF OBESITY—TEMIBERING COPPER--A HONO- mercury. The fumes from the explosion were FROM BANDA carried to a distance by a strong gale. As a LOGICAL PREAK-MON

EXPLOSIVES-ALUM- result of the inquiry, the manufacture of ex- PROM NOVEL DANGER

plosives in the island has been prohibited. EN UMEEDING PLANTS.

METALLURGICAL

HOSPITAL THE

N INTERIM DIVIDEND on account of the year 1903 at the rate of Fifty Cents per Share (or Five Per Cent on the Capital of the Company) will be payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANE, Hongkong,

A curious illusion of vision is being studied on and after MONDAY, the 30th instant, ou

It is Warrants to be obtained from the undersigned. Local Bhareholders are requested to apply at by Dr. Gen. M. Gould of Philadelphia. the Company's Ofles for their Warrants.

The Dividend will also be payable at the the apparent, nuvement of a distant bright HONGKONG AND BHANGHAI BANK, Shanghai,light--such as an incandescent electric light on presentation of Warrants there, on and after two or three miles away-and it can best be observed by looking steadily at the light on the same date.

a dark niglit, with precautions to shut from the field of view other lights or objects that would tend to fix the location of the point under observation. With the right eyo alone

The REGISTER of SHARES will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 23rd instant, SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY until MONDAY. the 30th instant, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares will be registered, CHOSEN BY QUE

By Order.

MR.

GREAT

ROBINSON,

A. H. MANCELL

Secretary. Hongkong, 14th November. 13,

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The migration of birds is being studied in a new warmer by German ornithologistu. Hundreds of thousands of crows are being captured at Rossitten, in East Prussia, and, after being tagged with a number and the date, are again liberated. It is requested that when one of these birds is killed, the tag and the date and place of killing shall be forwarded for record.

A tree using aluminum almost to the ex-

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IF YOU SMOKE TURKİSH CIGARETTES, NELISTA CIGARETTES ARE MANUFACTURED FROM THE CHOICEST TURKISH TOBACCO. PACKED IN AIR-TIGHT TINS OF FIFTY.

MANUFACTURED BY-

W. D. & H. O. WILLS' BRANCH, BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY. LD.

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the light seems to move slowly to the right clusion of other mineral elements has been NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES,

and often upward; while the left eye usually but not always sees the light move to the

reported in New South Wales by II. G. Smith,

NOW IN EUROPE. \ THE CHINA TRADER'S INSURANCE left and sometimes also upward. Dr. Gonly of Sydney. It is known botanically as Drites |

REDUCTIONS

in our present stock nf. Piance and Musical

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Our NEW MUSIC STOCK has arrived.

THE APOLLO

MASTER PIANO

COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the HEAD OFFICE, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 8th Dec., at Twelve o'clock Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with Statement of Accounts to the 30th April last, and of declaring Dividendia.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th inst, to the 8th proxima, both days incinsive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

JAMES WHITTALI, Secretary. Hongkong, 17th November, 1902. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED..

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TESTAR, umbered 2201/0250 THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 2635 inclusive, standing in the register in the name of TOM GREAVES GOWLAND having bean lost, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Lhst unless the said Certificate be produced at the Ofters of the DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP PLAYER DECEMBER, 1903, & now certificate for the COLD., Victorin, Hngkong, before 17th

THE BEST OF ALL.

THREE STYLES: PRICE FROM $450 UP. PATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO.

Adelina Patti Baroness Coderstrom) has given another great testimonial to the Apollo Piano-dayor. She was so delighted with the instrument that was purchased by her last year that this tatimonial is oven stronger than the first one that she gave

Mm. Putti says that the Apollo never has

said shares will be issued and the old certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as null and voil.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers,

[3173 Hongkong, 17th November, 1903,

UINART PERE & FILS, REIMS

Established 1719, CHAMPAGNE GROWERS AND SHIPPERS.

RU

Ship only the Finest Qility Ext Dry (Green Seal)

LAUTS, WEGENER & CO.,

Solo Agents. Hongkong, J.-May, 1903.

supposes the movements to be caused by the mechanism or physiology of the brain centro. for vision, and he suspects that this hitherto undescrihed phenomenon may prove of far- reaching interest as connected with ghosts, telepathic visions, the illusions of delirium tremens, etc.

The idea that connets are connected with radio active substances was suggested by T. C. Chamberlin as long ago as July, 1901. Prof. C. V. Boys now considers that radium whose particles are shot out at a twelfth of the velocity of Hght, may explain some of the phanomena of comets tails, as these articles would be sent away from the electrically charged surface of the sun in a single, double or multiple stream. The negatively charged rays that radium is said to give ont would he attracted, giving the tails that on a few occasions have pointed toward the sun. The discusses of metals" are becoming so weil recognised by German metallurgists that the Imperial Navy Yard at Wilhelmshafen regularly sends samples to thedissecting talles and endeavours to prescribe remedies. of Prof: Heyn, who dinghoses the maladies,

as a basic succinate. Other flowering plants cela, R. Br., and the aluminum is deposited show only a frace of aluminum, although it seems to serve as a food of eryptagams, CORRESPONDENCE.

EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY FRESH " Six-It was interesting to read your leader few days agoanent education in Hongkong as reported by H.M.'s Inspectors, and the improvements suggosted by them. Undoubtedly the very poor resalta achieved by the scholars, the system in vogus is much to be deplored for which osu bo of little ass to them after school life. I may say it is not only the Chinese boye who study in schools that botray such glaring misconceptione of the use of words. It is there- fore an interesting problem for any philologist to solve why the English langunge should t so difficult for Easterners to acquire, when they As oan learn with ease French or German.

comparisons are orions, I would not like to draw Chinamanoraza unazite, broughtopin French echools, speaks the languago so distinctly and one overtheless one cannot help doing so when

The shortness of breath and heart weakness vorrectly that oron La Fontaine would admire of fat people are found by Dr. L. Menard, a How can such be achieved in the English langu French physician, to be not wholly due to aga? Simply, I may say, by adetermined insisteure on the part of teachers to enforce a correct reply superabundance of flesh. The disease of uk. esity is that of imperfect assimilation and in sound English from their pupils and more disassimilation, the blood being filled with facilities for colloquial classes in which pupils Now the incompletely oxidised products of the may have free intercourse with their English Intter process, and by training and systematic teschore. By some such means the papila may exercise it is possible to correct the faults of learn to prevent any rolapsa into the habit of nutrition, so that health and strength many beasing a word irrospective of its signification. enjoyed, even without reduction of weight I should think, Sir, that a British Colony would The world's champion wrestlerin 1901, excell- feel proud in heving the children of its soil ing in running as well as in strength, weighed assimilate the ideas and the language of Its 297 pounds, although only $ft. Sim-in-height mother country in a perfect manner. If wo waut and parcel of the Great British Empire, we must ed standard for his height. The disturbance of nutrition may evenbebrought about by lessen-do as our neighbours in the south do-Anglicise ing the weight through diet cures or the top them as they Galliciss their natives. exclusive use of mont, but a slightly reduced diet, especially a diet of milk and vegetables, together with methodical exercise, usually gives both reduction of weight and a correc- tion of the fung and heart derangements of obesity.

DYNAMITE,

GELATINE-DYNAMITE,

RLASTING GELATINE AND GELIGNITE,

DETONATORS, SAFETY FUSE,

AND ALL BLASTING ACCESSORIES,

MAGAZINES AND DEPOTS AT

HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, WEIHAIWEL.

AGENTS-

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.

JAPAN

COALS.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA MITSUI & CO)

HEAD OFFICE-1, SURUGA-CHO, TOKYO. LONDON BRANCH-34, LINE STREET, E.C.

HONGKONG BRANCH-PRINCE'S BUILDINGs, Ice House STREST

OTHER BRANCHES:

Chetoo, Tientsin, Newchwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji Wakumsise Karateu, Nagneak! Kuchinot m, Sasebo, Maidzuru Miike, Hakodate, Taipeh, &c.

Telegraphic Address: "MITSUI" (A.B.C. and A 1 Codes) CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsenals and the State Railways; Principal Railway Corapanies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Farcus Mike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and

"Sasahara Trubokaro, Yoshindani, Yoshie. Yunokibara, and other Coats.

"N. INUZUKA Munger, Hongkong

given her the slightest trouble and that the new VICTORIA HAIR DRESSING SALOON | this weight being 132 pounds above the accept: ! them to by English, to feel English, and jet 1 SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Iondo, Kanals, Fujinotana,, Mamada, Mannouro, Onoura Oluaji,

concert graud is our of the most wonderful

perfect plane-players that she lms over soon.

Hongkong, "Way • stober, 1903,

HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

DAILY FRESS" OFFICE,

and

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The only go in China having European tenght workreu. Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEH & CO., Fistablished 1959,

AND VARIETY STORE

Under Connaught House Hotel). JUST unpacked, ex recent arrivals

Large Variety of XMAS TOYS, IMAS TREE ORNAMENTS, FANCY GOODS, PERFUMERY, TOILET REQUISITES, MEERSCHAUM and BRIAR PIPES and XMAS and CIGARETTE HOLDERS, NEW YEAR CARDS from Raphael Tuek, Pidgin English Xmas Cards on Rice Paper, &o., &c., &c.

Prices very moderate. Inspection respect- fully solicited.

(3270 Hongkong, 26th November, 1203.

SON CORSAR

Every Household Heuisite. Depot for DMERCHANT NAVY

Eastman's Kodale Films and Accessories;

19, Queen's Road Central.

CHEONG LEE & CO., Furniture Store Established over 20 years. Importers and Exporters, Teakwood Pornitare, Blak- wood, Jewellery, &c, highest grade best and cheapest.. E, Queon's Read

Central.

JEWELLERS

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 49 Walzon's Building, Queen's Road. Aleo ay Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Iloil

PHOTOGRAPHIE

M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and ako colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; No. 8a, Queen'e

Road Central.

PRINTING

VALY PRESS" OFFICE' Proofs read by Englishmen.

STOREKEEPERS

F. BLACKHEAD & CÒ,

Kay Contractors, Sailmakers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Solt Agents for Hartoon Rahtjen's Genuine 'Com-

position Red Hand Brand,

BISMARCK & CO.,

Contractors, Ship Chandlers, Navy

Provision and Coal Merchants, Bail.

Vessels in the Harbour

makers, de..Fresh Water supplied to

KHONG SANG & CO...

Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Provisiouera, Coal Moreliants, Hardware, Engineers' Tools, Brass and Iron Merchants,

144, Des Voeux Read.

WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO.,

14. Queen's Road Central Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts, at moderate ratos CHEONG SHING

GENERAL EXPORTERS.

DEALERS IN JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS, PEARLS PRECIOUS STONES, FILKS, IVORY WAKES, EMBROIDERIES AND PONGEE SILK. Wholesale and Retail Prices very moderato. No. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite Messrs. C. J. GAUFP & Co.). Hongkong, 16th May, 1993,

[$17

NAVY BOILED LONG FLAX

CANVAS

RELIANCE CROWN TARPAULING

ARRHOLD, KARBERG & 40.

Bole Agente.

MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI.

Hardened copper, states a Goraan authori ity, has been sought not so much for providing instruments with razor-like rutting edges as for coating them with a case-hardened sur ince to resist changes from exposure. A lately published patent claims that copper may be satisfactorily tempered by heating slowly to a certain temperature, and sprink ling with powdered sulphur during the heating. The objects, while still hot, are plunged into a bath of blue vitriol.

A novel watch in Zurich is in the form of a.ball which moves imperceptibly down inclined plane without rulling. There is no spring, the sliding giving motion to the CODE WORD: "DOCK" NAGASAKI.hands, and the trip from top to bottom of the A.1, A.B.C., Scutte' and Engineering Code Used. DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAMI) Extrenie Longth.... Length on Blacks

Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Hoftem..

$23 feet.

513

B9

14

"7

1.

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

R

DOCK No. 2 (at MUKAIJIMA.)

Extreme Length...

Length on Blocks

350

Width of Entrance on Top

66

...

Width of Entrance on Eoftor...

53

บ

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

92

71

371 feet

PATEN SLIP (at KOSUGE). Can take vessels 1 to 1,000 fans gross.

np THE WORKS are well equipped with the THE MOST IMPROVEMENTS and execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD 23 in REPAIRING of SHIPS.

The COMPANY

ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as wat

bag

a. SALVAGE.

STEAMER, 712 TONS GROSS, FITTED

inclined surface, a distance of 16 inches. requires 24 hours. The ball is then lifted again to the top

The birds of Lapland are reported by H. Guebolto number 198 species. Of these, 133 certainly breed in that country, 34 pro- bably do 5, 17 aro stragglers, and 6 winter visitors, is an ocean species, and 7 are seen only in the Solovetski Islands.

The best iron sand, quite black, and con- taining 35 or 40 per cent. of metal, is claimed It is calculated by the British Colonies. that there are 1,200 miles of it along the coast of the Gulf of S. Lawrence in Canala, 200 miles in New Zealand, and about 80 in

British Columbia, and it is also found in

Ireland. A prize of about $100,000 has been

for a satisfactory method of extructing the offered by the Government of New Zealand 1677 iron. Many processes have bean patented, but one of the most promising seems to be how under test at Lambeth, Eng., where the

with POWERFU SALVAGE PLANT READY at SHORT NOTICE.

CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS USED FOR OVER 25 YEARS.

IN CASES OF ABOUT

450 LRS. NET

TRADE

IN TINS OF 45 LBS.

MARY

NET.

iron is first separated by magnets, then formed into briquettes through the aid of a secret finid, and is finally heated in the furnace. As only half the ordinary amount of coke is required, the process is expected to materially reduce the cost of pig-iron. Some mysterious deaths of cattle in Alder- ney have been traced to a curious source. EVERY DROP.CO ̃ ̃NTS.

rubbing Perry Remember that when you a Davis' Painkiller on a muscle that has been strained by overwork. Down into the tiny Throughly reliable preservativo for Wood pores of the skin Painkiller works its way and Stone against White Ants, Decay, Fungus soothing the inflamed tissues and taking away the ache. Ask your druggist what his other customers say of this household benefactor. LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., Hot, and Dampnest.

There is but one Painkiller, Perry Davis'.

298-16 Solo Agents for Chian

8902 Hongkong 1st July, 1902

LINEUM

Such a resalt can only be attained by in. culcating in them a love for speaking correctly the English language, grammatically, idiomati-

D. S. G. cally, and above all with a correct pronunciation. →Yours, ofç,

BEFORE GOING TO BED

USE

CALVERT'S CARBOLIC

Tooth Powder

This unique antiseptic demifrice la well-known by ita plak colour, pleasant taste, fragrant odar, and thorough Belency.

F.C. CALVERT & Co., Manchester, Eng.

NOTICE.

2762-3

THERE is a Vacaner for an INDIAN WARDMASTER (Tomporary) at the Government Lunatic Asylums.

Salary. kc, $10 a month with quarters and uniform.

Applications, with testimonials as to charac- ter, should be addressed to the Superintendent, Government, Civil Hospital, up to December 15th, 1903.

By Order,

J. BELL, Superintendent: Government Civil Hospital;

Hongkong, 26th November, 1903.

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

OF

DENTISTRY

F3272

DR. M. H. CHAUN,

2490 From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Hongkong, 10th March, 1903. 27, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL HONGKONG,

JUNGER DEUTSCHER.

DDEREITS

Mehrore Jahre

in einer Brösseron Import Firma in China als Saleman thatig gewesen, sucht per 1. Januar 1904 anderweitig Stellung, in der es ihm moeg. lich ist. u. a, anch seine Keuntnisse in Export.

T. K. 56, erweitern. Golig. Angebote erbeten unter.

Care of Pally Press Office, Hongkong, 28th November, 190S,

HIRANO WATER, THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.

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PURE, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING TRE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST Bottled in Japan by H. E. REYNELL & Co. BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONS.

F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGERTS. Hongkong, 31st July, 1903

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MIDZUSHIMA & CO.

COAL MERCHANTS.

No. 4, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Facing Duddull Stroot). HEAD OFFICE: No. 5, SAKAIMACHI, KOBE. BRANCH OFFICES-HIGASHI-HOMMACHI, MOJI, MINAMUAJIKAWA, OSAKA AND KAIGAN, WAKAMATSU.

AGENCY: MR. S. NAKAYAMA, MOTOMACHI YOKOHAMA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MIDZUSHIMA, Kobe, Moji, Osaka, Wakamatsu, and Hongkong

CONE USED: A 1 & A. B. C. 4TH ED.

Importers of Japanese Coals. Contractors of Cual to the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes de France, Foreign and Japanese stenaners, Arsenal and Japanese Railway Companies, &o. Sole Proprietors of Kamamoto and Tonours Cral Mines. Sole Agenta for Kawamiya, Komatsugaura, Minamio, Ikejiri and Kumagabats Collieries.

K. UYEHURA, Manage

Hongkong, 4th March, 1903,

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MELLIN'S

FOOD

For INFANTS and INVALIDS.

Purely Vegetable and Untouched by Hand. MELLIN'S FOOD' is free from Starch. When prepared is similar to Breast Milk.

Hello's Food Works, Peckham, London, England.

"THE EAST OF ASTA." (Published Quarterly.)

CON

YONTAINING Articles of Specia! Interest Profusely Illustrated, descriptive of the people, Customs, &e, of the Far East.

CARTRIDGES.

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SPORTING LEY'S, SCHULTZE'S, AMBERITE

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AMMUNITION in Variety,

WM. SCHMIDT & CO. and American, that the production of this and NEWCASTLE CHILLED CHOT in Magazine has evoked is eloquent testimony of all sizes, Nos, 10 to SSSG, AIR GUNS and

Hongkong, 28th November, 1902

HOTEL TO BE LEASED. the sterling merit of the publication.

***

$1.50. Price On Saleat "NORTH CHINA HERALD

OFFICE, Shanghai; MESERS. KELLY & WALSH

Hongkong;

and all leading Booksellers in the Far East Hongkong. 34th February, 1905.

KOWLOON ROTISSERIE.

TO. 31, ELGIN ROAD, Kowloon (Two

No. 31, ELG on Hotel

Meals à la Carte, Steaks, Chops, &c. &c., at any time between 7 a.. and 10.30 p.m. Monthly L'erms on application,

Hongkong, 6th October, 1003:

THE Proprietor of the OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, Elgin Road, Kowloon, is pre- situated, contains 35 Bedrooms with Bathroom parad to loase the same. The Hotel is well adjoining each, and is in every way well adapted to the requirements of a first-class Hotel business. A good business is done, and the Proprietor has satisfactory reasons for wishing to retire. The books may be inspected by any bona fide enquirer, and all particulars may be

Hotel, had on application to the Proprietor at the

(72 Hongkong, 24th November, 1903.

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