INTIMATIONS
THE
ROBINSON
INSURANCES
COMMERCIAL UNION
ASSURANCE CO., LD.
TOTAL FUNDS EXCEED $70,000,000,
PIANO. Co, LD. FIRE, Marino. Typhoon, Accident, Fidelity
UPRIGHT IRON
GRANDS
MANUFACTURED BY US
ARE TO BE
ABSOLUTELY DEPENDED ON.
issued,
W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS,
Branch Manager and Underwriter. Hongkong, 13th June, 1901.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 16th, 1904.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
THE NEW WEATHER 8QIENCE-IMAGINABY DISEASE--THE COAL-TAE DYES-GYROSCOPIC
has two coner on the same axis. In the field of view
appears 0 central hlank' space surrounded by a ring, in which the object under oxamination is seen much magnified, SHIP STEADYING-FOSSIL OCEAN CURRENTS
though distorted. It is expected that magnifica- -BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF DARKNESS---FISH
NOVEL MICROSCOPE—ANOTHER | tious of 6,000 diameters will be made easy, showing much hitherto undiscoverable detail in minnie abjaots.
APPENDICITIS THEORY.
In his work oa, director of the Indian Meteorological Department, Sir John Elliot has found that while ons hemisphere of the earth' Guarantee, and Flato Glass Policies which inciades Europe, southoru Asia, Africa India and Australia, is experianeing high atmospheric pressure on the average, the other hemisphere, which includes North and South America and Siberia, is experiencing a deficiency of pressure, and vice versa. This see-saw pressure has an average period of about four years or a little loss. This and other facts that WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF must influence long-period forecasting lead Sir
TORONTO AND LONDON. INCORPORATED A.D. 1851.
MARINE BRANCH.
THE undersigned having been appointed
accept risks at current rates.
ALEX. ROSH & CO. ffongkong 28th April, 1904 Hongkong
THE
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THE BOMBAY FIEF AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
FIRE BRANCH,
THERE IS NO PIANO SO WELL THE undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the abere Company, are propared to accept RISKS against FIRE st Current Rates.
ADAPTED TO STAND THE
HONGKONG CLIMATE.
HOLLAND-CHINA TRADING CO, Hongkong, 26th November, 1903. 12100
John to declare that the next development of weather study will almost certainly be in the direction of international or world meteorology and its relation to sun-spots and terrestrial magnetisra.
Hysterical persons imagine 'discases and doceive doctors' in an astonishing number of cases, nesording to a Frouch writer. In dis". cases requiring surgical treatment this is serious, and in one case of simulated tuberentons poritonitis the patient was operated on thres times, the peritonenin being found absolutely healthy. In another case a woman of 26 became dumb after in accident. Fortunately no opera- tion was attempted, and she suddenly recovere: her voice during an X-ray examination.
The coal-fur colours on the market in 1891
L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE | numbored #4 distinct compounds. À new sur-
COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE MATERIAL IS OF THE BEST THE Undersigned having been appointed L AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to accept Riska against Fire at current
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 1st January, 1901.
AND THOROUGHLY
SEASONED IN THE COLONY.
WE GUARANTEE THEM FULLY.
PRICES $400: Upwards.
BABY
GRANDS
ONLY 5 FEET LONG,
Hongkong, 8th June, 1904.
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BUDWEISER
BEER
EXTRA PALE LAGER IN CLEAR BOTTLES, OF UNIVERSAL POPULARITZ, ANHELSER BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION, ST. LOUIS.
The Largëst BREWERY
IN THE WORLD.
LEADS IN OUTPUT AND
QUALITY
This Beer is brewed of best Saazer Hops and inest Barley Malt only, and warranted not to contair Chemicals in any form.
*The Bear is sterilised after being bottled, and full mature age insures ils ne condition in any climate. Beautifully bright, sodnatively spark- ling, and perfectly pure.
4. PLACKHEAD & CO.,
Sole Agents.
Avarkour 25th July, 1903,
A. LING & CO.,
FURNITURE STORE.
46
PLATER, GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, &c., &c.; and FOOCHOW
LACQUERED WARE.
+
113
CE QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Hongkong, 2161September, 1908..
DIRECTORY OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES
IN
CHINA, JAPAN AND COREA FOR 1904.
WITH ALPHABETICAL LIST.
88 PAGES. PAPER COVER, 60 Cents, - On Sale at AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS,
Shanghai
rates.
105
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
THE Undersigned, having been appointe
AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Carrant Rates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
PHONI
199
voy courierates 695 products, the actual number of now dyes being 800, as 59 have been dropped from the list as obsolote.
On a vessel of 6,000 tons, Otte Schlick. German naval architect, would rotate a fen-tou flywheel at a circumference velocity of 650 [fect per second. He believes that the gyroscopic effect would practically overcome the ship's ten- deney to roll.
We have been told of fossil rain and fossil wind, and Prof. Stanisins Meunier has now pointed out the existence in certain rocks of fossil ocean currants. In many localities the stratified sand and sandstone show peculiarly curved and interlaced layers. This interlaced structure is now to be seon in formation by the river Seine, and the rivers of the oceau have transported sand and mud to deposit in their windings in a similar way. If the seas were dried up, the course and history of the DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & 00.
Gulf Stream and other currents might be Agents for the Phoenix Fire Offos traced in these deposits. The sand and sand- Honticong, 17th August, 1887.
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stone of interlaced structure are found from NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO widely separated geological epochs, and au
HONIX FIRE OFFIOF.
The Undarsigned are now prepared t GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Current Rates
FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1836.
THE Undersigned are prepared to accept Fiest Class Forgiga a Chinese RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR- ANCE Prospectuses on application.
TURNER & CO.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 23rd September, 1903.
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ATORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN- NILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1902, £16,378,771.
I.
AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0 0 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0
687,500 0 0 PAIN-UP CAPITAL.......
2,857,215 11 10 II. FIRE FUNDS...
interesting lesson taught by then is that the ocean currents and their work have been sub- stantially the same at all periods of the earth's evolution,
Since 1896 the effects of light and dark- ness upon crustaceans, batrachians, and fishes have been studied in a biological laboratory of the Catacombs of Paris. In the under ground portion of the laboratory, animals accustomed to daylight are kept constantly in darkness, while in a section above grovnd cave animals are kept in ordinary light. Life in darkness brings a gradual fading of colour. The organs of smell, touch and tasto soon increase to three times their former size; the ogos remain normand for a time, but in fishes doubled in size at the end of five years, though with less of power and evident coming atrophy. The size of fishes becomes much reduced.
The cave animals show that light is disagreeablo to them. and in a few months develop.colour.
The N-rays of Blondlot seem to give re- actions that some persons can perceive while others cannot. This brings up again the (1688 matter of the difference of the senses in different
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRF ut Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents, Hongkong, 19th June, 1903.
ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY.
VEUVE
CHAMPAGNE
CLICQUOT PONSARDIN
RHEIMS.
MAISON FONDÉE EN 1783.
APPLY TO--
WERLE & CIE, SUCERS.
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Too much trolley-car is suggested by a Chuadian physician as the cause of appendicitis With considerable walking; the abdominal and CHINA EXPORT, IMPORT, & BANK COMPAGNIE, intestinal muscles are kept in good working 2 CONNAUGHT ROAD.
SOLE AGENTS, order, and there is no danger of appendicitis, but the trolley-car leads to neglect of walking. The prevalence of appendicitis in suburban towns is given as proof of the theory.
The doctors disagree as to the value of cannon firing for preventing hall. Of:50 experta at the recent Graz conference, 8 locked upon the method as effective, 9 as doubtful but probablo, 13 as simply doubtful, 15 as doubtful and improbable, und 5 as useless.
ROWLAND'S
KALYDOR
FOR
THE
SKIN
Produces soft, fair, delicata skin, hoals zil cutaneous eruptions, and insures a lovely. delicate complexion to all who use i
2/9, 10, Of Stores and Chemists,
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A. B. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
THE
HE REGISTERED OFFICE of the above Company has This Day been REMOVED to ALEXANDRA BUILD- INGS, DES VEUX ROAD, 2ND FLOOR. A. H. MANCELL, Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1904.
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DUINART PERE & FILS, REIMS
Established 1719,
R
SHIPPERA.
CHAMPAGNE GROWERS AND
Ship only the Finest Quality Extra Dry (Green Seal)
LAUTS, WEGENÚR & CC.,
Sole Agents
1264
Hongkong, 18th May, 1903.
D
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
**
ENTISTRY
37, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG. DR. H. H. CHAUN.
From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Hongkong. 3rd June, 1904
164
AMOY ENGINEERING CO., LD, AMOY
CALL FLAG E.
WORK to TEPAIR
Steamers นอ Launches. Castinga in Brass and Iron Moder charges. Work solicited.
J. D. EDWARDS, Manager.
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Amoy, 3rd December, 1903, AUTOMATIC. MAUSER
PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7,63 m.m. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS. SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 3rd October, 1900,
NOTICES OF FIRMS
NOTICE.
AXTE have authorised Mr. J. OPPEN. HEIM to Sigu Our Company per procuration.
HOLLAND-CHINA TRADING CO. Hongkong. 13th June, 1904.
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NOTICE.
have Authorized Mr. DAVID
individuals, and suggests that selected persons WLANDALE and Mr. WILLIAM may be trained for work requiring scateness of vision, others for keenness of hearing, and so
OT!
PRODUCE the Ilighost Class AERATED The discovery of carolinium and herzelium
WATERS in the Far East on Recount of beir High Class Machinery and also of the increases the number of known elements to superior ingredients they use in the manufaciare about eighty, and of radio-active substances to of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all about six. ander strict supervision of Europeans only.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
While wood that has been turned to opal is
ARTHUR CARRUTHERS CEBICK. SHANK to Sign var Firm, and to Mr. HERBERT IRVING BELL and to Mr. CHABLES EDWARD ANTON we have given the Signature per Precuration
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 10th Jane, 1904.
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THE WINE GROWERS' SUPPLY CO.
THE
AGENTS for the WINE SUPPLY COMPANY, of Paris, are now for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS at 22 and prepared to answer enquiries and receive orders 24, Bank Buildings.
BARRETTO & CO. Hongkong, 10th June, 1904.
HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED Aerated Water Hosh may be similarly silicified. Australian
The representative of Messrs. BRATBY and frequently found. it has not been supposed that designed having been appointed Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a toar amongst geologists, however, have been lately puzzled by Eastern Acrated Water Makers, and was greatly what appears to be an opal fish, which is a stone surprised at the compactness of our factory and 3 feet long having the shape of a doglish, bat a'so the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Acrated Waters with spiral vins of opal in the body and was carried out. He also expressol himself horizontal oras about the head. The object mus strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our taken from a depth of 35 feet at White Chis whole establishment, which he assured us was Local authorities disagree, some declaring that
a great many. He also reported that the
Mr. EDWARD EVANS, Missionary Home, Book equal to any he had yet visited and superior to the specimen is a piece of opalized wood of f
quality of our goods was of a first-class nature, curious form, and it is to be sent to London and they showed that scrapulous care was for a thorough scientific investigation. exercised in the course of their manufacture.
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General Managers.
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ordinary eye-piece. In place of lenses it
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COKE AND TAR.
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beg to notify the public that Messrs. HE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO.
KUNG HING & ̃CD., 474, Des Voeux Road West, are the SOLE AGENTS for the sale of the Company's Coke and Tar, and that all orders should be sent to the said Agents direct.
GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary' Hongkong, 8th June, 1904.
NOTICE.
JAPAN
COALS.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
(MITSUI & CO)
HEAD OFFICE:-1, SUBDos-eno, ToxyO. LONDON BRANCH:-4, LIME ŠTRZET, E.C.
HONGKONG BRANCH;-PRINON'S BUILDINGS, ICE Havs). Stewar
OTHER BRANCHES :
New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Chefoo, Clenbán, Newolwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohams, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobo, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamafau. Karatau, Nagasaki, Kuchinotm, Sosebo, Maidzuru Mike, Hakodate, Taipah, &o.
Telegraphic Addresa: “MITSUI" (A.B.C, and A. 1 Codes)
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japaasss Navy and Arsenale and the Stars Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Homs and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Mike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Honde, Kanada, Fajinotana, Mameda, Mauzoara, Onoura Olsuji,
Bansbara Taubakaro, Yoshinotani, Yoshio. Tanokibara, and other Coals.
8. NINAMI, Manager. Hon kong.
CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS
IN CASES OF ABOUT
450 LBS. NET
USED FOR OVER 25 YEARS.
TRADE
ARBOLINE
MARK
INEUM
IN TINA
NET
45 LBS.
Thoroughly reliablo preservative for Wood and Stons against White Ants, Decay, Fungus Rot, and Dampness.
LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO.,
Sole Agents for Chius.
280 Hongkong, 1st July, 100%
"THE EAST OF ASIA." (Publisheri Quarterly.) MONTAINING Articles of Special Interest.. Profusely Illustrated, descriptive of the people, Customs, &c., of the Far East.
The kindly Pross criticisms, both Continental and American, that the production of this Magazine has evoked is eloquent testimony of the sterling merit of the publication."
Price
1. mg
11 *** IN
$1.50.
On Sale at "NORTH CHINA HERALD
OFFICE, Shanghai;
MESSES. KELLY & WALSH
Hongkong;
and all leading Booksellers in the Far East Hongkong, 14th February, 1903.
TONG CHONG & CO. No. 98, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
Manufacturers of Hand-made Pare HAVANA CIGARS AND CIGARETTES They are made of best Havana leaves and possess a mild and choice flavour, Inspection courteously invited. Hongkong, 26th May, 1904,
HIRANO WATER. THE QUEEN OF TABLE Waters.
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PURE, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING
THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST Bottled in Japan by H. E. REYNELL & Co.
BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONS.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 31st July, 1993. QIEN TING.
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SURGEON DENTIST,
No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREEL
TERMS VERY MODERATE
Consultation Free. Hongkong, 21st March. 1903.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
JEWELLERS
MITAU BISHI GOSHIKWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO, Cablo Address, "IWASAKI," which applies to all Branch Ofleas and Hong- kong and Shanghai Agencies,
́Al, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes ased, All Letters Addromed MANAGEE, MITSUлIGHT CO, with name of place under. BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW. AGENCIES:- SHANGHAI: H. J. H. TRIPP.
HONGKONG: II. U. JEFFRIES,
MANILA: COMPANIA MARITIMA.
YOKOHAMA M. ASADA. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im- perial Japanese Navy and Foreign Navius; the Imperiul Arsenals; the Imperial Railway, Sanyo, Kizslau and the other Principal Rail ways, Industrial Works, Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers,
EXPORTERS OF COAL to Hongkong, Shanghai, Hankow, Singapore, Maulla, North. China, Korean ports and America.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Ochi, Shinnew, Namazats and Kami-Yamada Collieries and also Hojo Cofliary, which will be ready to produce on a large scale the best Buzen Coal from 1905, **
Sole Agents for Kigio, Komatsu (Tagawa' and Matsushima Coals.
The Head and Branch Offices and tha Agen- cies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Colliories.
Coaf sold in 1903 by the Company amounted Lo 1,210,000 tons.
TAKASHIMA COAL.
New and additional shafts at the Takashima Colliery have beam completed and this well- kaown best and most economical steam Coal in the EAST is now produced in abundance and can be supplied in any quantity. Hongkong, 26th April, 1904.
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MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI,
CODE WORD; "DOCK,” NAGASAKI A1, AB.C., Ecotts' and Engineering Caden Used. BOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAMI) Bxtreme Length...
Length on Blocks
***
...
Width of Entrance on Top
Width of Entrance on Boltom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
593 feet. 513 89 77 "
261 **
9
371 feet,
Length on Blocks
850
Width of Entrancs on Top
66
Width Entrancs on Bottom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tido
53 22
DOCK No. 2 (zł MUKAIJIMA.) Extreme Longth...
PATENT SLIP (at KOSUGE). Can take vessels up to 1,000 tone gross,
MAISON LEVY HERMANOS
Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40
Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Also LATEST IMPROVEMENTS and can [THE WORKS are well equipped with the
at Shanglai, Manila, Paris and Iloilo
PHOTOGRAPHIE
M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.
Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and alee colouring Photos and relief Photos, Views of China and Manila, Wark dons for Amateurs; No. 84, Queen's
Boad Central.
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F.
THE HOTEL AMERICA" bus changed TE
haude, and is ander entirely New Manage ment in which Mr. FRED NOLTE has NO Further Interest from the 1st June, 1904.
The pssent proprietors are not answerable for nay Debts contracted by the Hotel before
hat date.
Hongkong, 10th June, 1994.
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NOTICE TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS.
XTRA COPIES of Daily Press are on sale daily at Mr. H. RUTTONJEE'S KOWLOON STORE, No. 36, Elgin Road Price 15 cents per copy cash.
Hongkong, 2nd December, 1908.
STOREKEEPERS
BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Navy Contractors, Sailmakers, Provision. and Coal Merchants, Bok. Agents for
Harimaan Rahtjen's Genula
position Red Hand Brand.
ISMARCK & CO.,
Com-
Navy Contractors, Ship Chandlers, Provision and Coal Morehnite. Bail-
BALVAGE
execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD. ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as well as in REPAIRING of SHIPS.
The COMPANY has STEAMER, 712 TONS GROSS, FITTED with POWERFUL SALVAGE PLANT READY at SHORT NOTICE.
MAIL TABLES
1370
FOR 1904
Mounted on Card Paper
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144, Des Yooux Road.
RIVER
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