INTIMATIONS
THE
ROBINSON
PIANO Co. LD..
UPRIGHT IRON
GRANDS
MANUFACTURED BY US
ARE TO BE
ABSOLUTELY DEPENDED ON.
THERE IS NO PIANO SO WELL
ADAPTED TO STAND THE
HONGKONG . CLIMATE.
THE MATERIAL, IS OF THE BEST
AND THOROUGHLY
SEASONED IN THE COLONY.
WE GUARANTEE
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
JEWELLERS
MAISON LEVY HERMAN-)S
Dinmond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Alɛo at Shanghai, Manila, F'aria and Iloile
PHOTOGRAPHER
V. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.;
Bromido and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Viewe of China and Manila. Work done for Amatours; Ifo. 8A, Queen'e
Road Central,
STOREKEEPERS
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Navy Contractors, Sailmakers, Provision and Cost Merchants, Solt Apeats for
Hartmann Rahtjen's Genaia position Rod lind Brand.
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ISMARCK & CO.,
Navy Contractors,
Chandlers, Skip Provision and Cool Murchante, Sail- makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied to
Vessels in the Harbour
KONG BẢNG & CO.,
Shipchandlers, Sailmalers, Provisionars Coal Merchants, Hardware, Engineers Tools, Brass and Iron Merchants
14. Das Voeux Rond.
ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY,
PRODUCE tho Highest Class A ERATED WATERS in the Far East où account of their High Cluss Murbinery and also of the superior ingrédients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all under strict supervision of Europeans only.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1904.
INTIMATIONS
IEN TING.
SURGEON DENTIST,
No. 10, L'AGUILAR STREE 1
TERMS VERY MODERATE,
Consultation Fros tongnong, Ast March, 1903.
WEI CHEETOO & CO.
IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS
AND
GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS. SPECIALITY; Human Hair, No. 12, Pottinger Street, Hongkong.
Agencies:-
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Cure Chrove, Dealer in Human [Inix, SHUN Looxo, Preserved Ginger Factory, CHOW LEUNG YEK, Fie Cracker Factory
Hongkong, 1st Juno, 1004.
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PURE FRESH WATER.
THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT CO., L., is prepared to supply ANY QUANTIFY of FORE FRESH WATER to the Shipping, both for Deck and Boilers.
Call Flag W.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A VALUABLE FRENCH PRODUCT-CHEMICALLY PURIFIED WATER-GUNS A GERM DISEAME –VIRKATIONS CLASSIFIED—AN OVERLOOKED FACTOR IN CLIMATE--AN IMPROVED FUEL- THE AIR'S RADIO-ACTIVITY --FELT POUNDA. TIONS.
Calcium seul, a new material of A. Bonnot, intended to take the place of stone and ceramic products, is a mixture of sandy feldspar and hydraulic line. The mixture umy be man'ded by pressing like brick aul tiles, and then poured into monks. It may be coloured by the addition of lay or metallic oxities, It is adapted for bnikling purposes, statuary and pipes, my ba worked with tanks like metals, and enamelled and docorated like glass, and it has the specia advantages of lightness, resistance to sxidation and acids, and of being a bed conductor of heat. and electricity.
HAR FRING
Superb Skin
is obtained and maintained by using
“DARTRING' -‘LANOLINE"
No imitation can bear the Bartring' No imitation can be called Darting.
"PARTRINGA TOHET MANOLINU
DARTRING LANOLINE TOBET SOAR
1955-1
Demand the genuine ·
, Moon Flavin,, Lovetur, foto
..
BILLIARDS"
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Our new patent Low Set-Express Cushions can be fitted to any Billiard Tabl, making it f playing purposes as good as new,
A purely chemical purification of water has given excellent results to 6. Allain, of Marseilles Iodine, which is a powerful antiseptic, is addesid in the proportion of 1 part to finķ600, and in most "euses clest rugs all Imcilli within a quarter WE. of an hour. The free iodine is then neutralized by sodium hyposulphite. The water in finally 1st Floor, 37. Consught Road siltered through charcoal, and is claimed ' to Hourkong, 13th June, 1963.
comment limpid, calourless and tasteless,
J. W. KEW. Manager,
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TONG CHONG & CO.. No. 98, QUEEN'S ROAD C NTRAL
Manufacturers of Hand-made Pure HAVANA O GARS AND CIGARETTES They are made of best Harana leaves and possess mild and choice favour. Inspection courteously invited. Hongkong. 26th May, 1904.
The represóutative of Messrs. BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aorated Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited cur factory recantly in the course of a lour amongst Bastelu Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly IN surprised at the compactness of our factory and a'so the methodical way in which everything TUEM FULLY, portaining to the making of Aerated Waters was curried out. He also expressed himself strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us was equal to any ho had yet visited and superior to a great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first-class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care was exorcised in the course of their manufacture.
PRICES $400; Upwards.
BABY
GRANDS
Order Booka and Price List. Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. 867. Depot, Ice House Street. Tol. 374. Dr.V. DÂNENBERG & F. P. DANENBERG, General Managers.
Hongkong, 11th May, 1994.
D
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
ENTISTRY
OF
Dr. M. 1. CHAUN.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
(Proight on a case of Cushions to Bombay, Ra - only)
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ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED BY RETURN MAIL STEAMER. Illustrated price lists, giving prices and partionlars of everything pertaining to billimerly, ca
Oras are a botanical puzzlé. Dr. Greig Smith, of Sydney, has now shown that some of j be had on application from the Oess of this paper.
JOHN ROBERTS
Plem ara dus in bacteria, and he has isolated some of these like that of "arabin." and
them produes their gums in the laboratory. He suggests that all other gums are bacterial products, and that the world's supply of gut might be increased by judicions selection of [137susceptible trees,
THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE of RUSTOMJEE MEHERWANJEE
MEHTA Inte of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchaut, deceased.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the N
Court has by virtue of Sec. 58 of Ordi. nance No. 3 of 1897 made an order limiting to the 21st June, 1904, the time for sonding in claims against the above Estate,
All creditors are hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned before the said date,
Dated the 5th day of April, 1994.
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ONLY 5 FEET LONG. 37, DES YEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG. From the University of Pennsylvania, USA
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HIRANO WATER. THE QUEEN OF TABLR WATERS,
PURE, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING
The Leading MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST Bottled in Japan by H. E. REYNILL & Co,
BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONS.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AUSTE Hongkong, 31st July, 1903.
a
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ONG FLAX
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Solicitors for the Administrator,
A new French work by C. V. Houlbert emmeretes: 30 spacies of insects, injurious to books, and gives all known methods of prevent; ing their ravages:
Physicists recognise two kinds of rays-those pained as the emission of infinitesimal qur. ticles, like the cathode rays, and those explained as vibrations Rays of the latter kind have been
& CO., L
BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS AND IVORY TURNERS, BOMBAY
Hongkong, 6th April, 1964.
CHAMPAGNĘ
($27-2
VEUVE CLICQUOT PONSARDIN
RHEIMS.
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arranged by Pref. Braun in a title, which shows the varying character correonding to differ. ent wave-lengths and rates of vibration. Elec. 2, CONNAUGHT ROAD, trical vibrations number from 50 per second. with a wave-length of 4,000 kilometres, this being the usual alternating current, to 50000 million per second and'a wave-length of 05 celinustre, as observed in a tiny bit of plati- mum wir. The longest known heat mys show 12 billion vibrations per second, with a wave- | length of 0.424 millimetre. Red light results
PPLICATION has boga made to the
from 450 billion vibratinus par second at a General Managers of this Company to wave-length of 9,0009959; and white light, froi issue to RUSSO-CHINESE BANK of Hong-so billion vibrations and a wave-length of kong duplicate certificates of 200 shares in the above Company or other certificates in her thereof upon the Statement that the original certificates, viz.
ÎNDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LD.
No. 69 for 25 shares No. 379 50
11
No. 380
25
No. 550 No. 878 50
200 shares
15
12
have been lost or stolen.
It is not known if such certificates werd issued by the office of the Company in the Colony of Hongkong or by the office in
London, and consequently the numbers of the shares cannot be given.
Notice is hereby given that if within 30 days from the date hereof no clain or representation in respect of such original certificates is ade to the General Managers they will then CANVAS proceed to deal with each application for a
duplicate.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO,
General Managers. Hongkong 1st June, 1901.
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(L00130 millimatre, The chemically activa ultra-violet rays, and finally the Rootzon rays.
ave still shorter wave-length and higher rate of vibration. A gap exists between the electrical New and the heat vibrations, and il is supposed that Bloadlot's N-ways, with a wave-length of about 4.2 millimetre, belong in this place. Å millime- tre, the thousazalth of a metre and milliouth of ju kilometre, is about 0.04 of an inch.
The electronscope of W. John Don, of Aberdeen, is a large glass cell in which a gold- leaf electroscope is suspended and through which air can be drawn at the rate of about a fifth of a cubic foot per hour. It gives a means of accurately measuring, the «lcetrifica-' tion of the air-that is; the number of electrons present at any time. It has shown that leakage from the charged electroscope may be as rapid on a dry day as an a day one that it is marked on days when people
foal deplesso, and that a sea-breeze changes, the negative charge to a positive one. Electriten- tion seems so important to health that we may expect a new era in climate, study.
Death from old age. saya Sir Herman Wober, is due to atrophy counted with changes in the blood vessuls, Vigorous eir- culation, premeted by kenging the organs in action, is the heat proventive,
and all leading Booksollors in the Far East sion of sticke and will give a fuel of which one Hongkong. 14th February, 193,
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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 3rd Juue, 1904.
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MITSUI BUSSAN
COALS.
B344
KAISHA
(MITSUI & COJ
HEAD OFFICE-1, SUEDGA-CHO, TOKYO. LONDON BRANCH:-34, Lime Šteret, E.Q,
HONGKONG BRANCHI-PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, ICs House STEERT
OTHER BRANCHES :
York, San Francisco, Hamburg. Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Chofuo, 'Tientsin, Newolwang, Fort Arthur, Seoul, Chouipo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kure, Shimanowaki, Moji, Wakamatay. Kamten, Nagwaki, Kuchinot m, Sasebo, Maidzura Müke, Hakodate, Taipoli, &o. ·
Telographic Addresa: "MITSUI" (A.B.C. and A. I Codes)
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Nary and Arsenals and the Sta
Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Froight Steamers. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Milke, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hondo, Kanada, Fujinotana. Mameda, Mannonra, Onsura Otsuji,
Sasahara Tsubakuro, Yoshinolani, Yoshio, Yuzokibaro, and othor Coals.
B. MINAMI. Manager, Hongkong.
BUDWEISER
BEER
EXTEA PALE LAGEN 13 CLEAR BOTTI.ES, OF UNIVERSAL Popularite. ANHEUSER BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION, ST. LOUIS.
THE LARGEST BREWERY,
IN THE WORLD.
QUALITY
TeBADS IN OUTPUT AND
With certain changes in fire-boxes, it is claimed that the petroleum briquettes of a
This Beer is brewed of best Saazer Hops and French naval officer make possible the suppre+contain Chemicals in any form.
finest Barley Mait ouly, and warranted not to
The Beer is sterilised after being bottled, and pound will be equivalent to four ponuds of coal. | fall mature age insures its fine condition in any The briquettes are made by adding to the climate. Beautifully bright, seductively spark petroleum oil, for each litre, 150 grammes of ling, and perfectly pare,
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., ground soap, 150 grammes of resin, and 300.
Sole Agents. grammes of caustic sodu tye. The mixture is
Hongkong 25th July, 1903. heated and stirred with certain precautions until near solidification,' when it is poured into moulds, which are placed in a stove for den or fifteen minutes, and the briquettes aro ready for use after cooling a few hours. Greater solidity is given by the addition of a little sawdust and a little.elay or sand.
In an attempt to determine whether air is
MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI.
CODE WORD: “DOCK” NAGASAKI.
45
| itself radio-active. Professors Elster and Geitel | A4, A B.C., Scotle' and Engineering Cods
seem to have proven that it is inactive. Its induced radio-activity, as occasionally observed. is attributed to an emanation from some radio- active substance which finds its way into the free atunsphere as well as into mineral springs. Tests of a very active earth from the Italian Alps seemed to show a truce of radium as the radio-active constituent.
Deed.
DOCK No. 1 (at-TATEGAMI) Extreme Length...
Length on Blocks, Width of Entrance on Top With of Entrance on Bottom... Water on Bineke ut Spring Tide
52) feat.
513
89
3+
77
.
28
371 feet,
350
66
31
17
22
DOCK No. 2 (st MUKAIJIMA) Extreme Longth... Length on Blocks Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Bottoni.. Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
PATENT SLIP” (at"KOSUGE). Can take vessels up to 1,000 tore gross.
A woollen felt mude in Leeds, Eng, is being much employer for giving clastic foundations and reducing the noise of machinery and rail. way trams. It is made in sheats up to 60 inches. by 30. with thicknesses of to à inches, and is impregnated with mineral fat, the upper sur- face being taured to resist dump and rust. THE WORKS are well equipped with the This felt is already much used in Germany
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS and can under steam-hammers, dynamos, paupa. en-execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD. gites, and the like, and in England on bridges, ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as well
BS in REPAIRING of SHIPS.
has The COMPANY
2 SALVAGE STEAMER, 712 TONS GROSS, FITTEN with POWERFUL SALVAGE PLANT
READY at SHORT NOTICE.
1370
The Fioser light, seemingly allied to X- rays, is claimed to remove scars by stimulating the blood corpuscles and causing them to form ner tissue.
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO.
Cable Address,* Iwasaki,”
which applies to all Branch Ofices and Hong kong and Shanghai Agoucion.
A1, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes used. All Letters Addreased:-
MANAGER, Mrrseв181 Co., with name of place under. BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW. AGENCIES SHANGHAI: II. J. H. Tater.
HONGKONG: H. U. JEFFRIES.
MANILA: COMPANIA MAKITIMA, YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im- perial Japanese Navy and Foreign Naries; the Imperial Arsenals; the Imperial Railway: Sanyo, Kiushu and the other Principal Rail- ways; Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers,
EXPORTERS OF COAL to Hongkong, Shanglo, Hankow, Singaporn, Manila, North Chins, Koreau ports and America.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima. Ochi, Shianew, Namazata and Kami-Yamada Collieries and also Hojo Colliory, which will be ready to produce ou a large scale the best Buzon Coal from 1905.
Sole Agents for Kigio, Komatsu (Tagawa and Matsushima Coals.”
The Head and Branch Offices and the Agen- cies of the Company will rooivo any order for Coals produced from the above-Collories.
Coal sold in 1903 by the Company amounted to 1,210,000 10us.
TAKASHIMA, COAL
New and additional shafts at the Takashima Colliery have been completed and this well- kuowa beet and most economical steam Coal in the EART is now produced in abundance and can be supplied in any quantity.
· Hongkong, 26th April, 1904.
ON SALE.
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Hangkong, 1st april, 1897
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