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ROBINSON

PIANO Co. LD.

THE

PREMIER PIANO

FIRM AND THE

ONLY PIANO SPECIALISTS

IN

HONGKONG: NOT

MERE DEALERS, BUY-

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

LOST.

CERTIFICATES of 30 nad 2

TSHARES standing in the Register of

this Company in the names of WONG LAM and AFCAR GABRIEL APCAR respective

by having been LOST, vís :-

Sarip No. 811-13300/13413-15 Sharon.

928–28338 28352—15

·673-12262/12263- 2

32 Shares.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Duplicate Certificates for the ssid 32 Shares will be famed one month bence, and that the Original Certificates noloss produced within that period will thereafter be held by the Company as null and veid.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 18th April, 1905.

198

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

ING AT ONE PRICE AND

SELLING AT ANOTHER,

BUT

T

PRACTICAL EXPERTS

AND

· MANUFACTURERS

DEVOTED

TO

EXCLUSIVELY

THE MUSICAL

INSTRUMENT TRADE.

These are

IFACTS OF THE

FIRST IMPORTANCE

TO PIANO BUYERS.

This Company is also by far

the LARGEST PIANO BUYER IN CHINA and gives the most

SOLID VALUES and

Wide Selection of Makes

Choren at the Factories and

ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED.

(630

Hongkong, 6th April, 1905.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE

PENSION

FRANCAISE

AND RESTAURANT.

49, POTINGER STREET, TENUE PAR MME. I GUIOU.

FIRST-OLAS COOKING BY A FRENCH Coon.

Torms: $3.50 per day.

Reduced Terms for an Extended Stay.

Hongkong, 13th January, 1905.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE,

M

1002

RS. GILLANDERS

"GLENWOOD,

2:7, CAINE ROAD Hongkong, 19th March, 1904.

"TANG YUEN,"

BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT,

LUST

HE CERTIFICATES of 71 SHARES standing in the Registor of this Com- pany in the name of SI TAY have dean LOST,

vizim

Serip No. 16 951/990-40 Shares.

215-941150 -10 216-3902,3922–21

71 Shares.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Duplicates Certificates for the suid 71 Shares will be issued one month buzco, and that the Original Certificates aniess produced within that period will thereafter be hell by the Company se vull and void.

SHEWAN, TOMES & 'CO.,

General Managers, Hongkong, 13th April, 1905.

[980

CANTON | INSURANCE OFFICE LIMITED.

NOTICE.

NOTE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 17th August, 183, for One Share numbered 9700, iu the above Offos, standing in the same of Mr. LE KWONG KAM, of Shanghai, has been lost, and should the same not bo produced before the 19th instant, a NEW SCRIP CERTIFICATE will be issued to the said Mr. LE KWONG KA31, and no Transaction taking place under the said Scrip Certificate No. 584, will be recognised by the Office,

SCRIP CERTIFICATE No. 534, issned

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited.

1137 Hongkong, 4th Muy,:19057 m

THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED,

A

FINAL NOTICE.

LL Shareholders who wore entitled to a proportion of the New Issue and who have not applied for such must apply im. medialoły.

Interest will be charged at the rate of twelve per cunt, por anaam on 319 the amount payable in respect of each share from the 31st day of March, 1905,

No application will be received after the 31st day of May.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 26th April, 1995.

[1082

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

LOST.

THE CERTIFICATES of 760 and

781 SEC in the Regista 36

the Company in the uses of ANTONIO. OSOKIO and TAM BON CHIU have been LOST, viz:--

European Supervision. Excellent Cuisine

-and Accommodation.

Apply

MANAGERESS.

Maodornell Road

or

(61

FAIRALL & CO., Queen's Road

Hongkong, 2nd March, 1993,

FIRST-CLASS BOARD & RESIDENCE

“ST. GEORGE'S HOUSE,"

2 & 4, KENNEDY ROAD,

And

"TOWER HOUSE," Kennedy Road.

TIXCELLENT Table, Evory home comfort Well furnished rooms facing the harbour For terms, apply to➡.

ME. G. BACHSE.

St. George's House."

· Hongkong, 15th March, 1903,

[70

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

N

ROOMS, with Board.

NOMFORTABLY FURNISHED

2. Pedders Hill.

Apply to Mrs. MATHER, Hongkong, lat Jannary, 1999.

PURE FRESH WATER.

THE HONGKONG "STEAM WATER TEBOHONGKONG. Is rupared to supply ANY QUANTITY of PURE FRESH WATER to the Shipping, both for Dock and Boilers,

Call Flag W.

J. W. KEY

Maunger, 1st Floor, 37, Counaught Road

Hongkong, 13th June, 1908.

THE

DIRECTORY AND

HRONICLE

*FOR 1905

Complete Edition

Small

$10.00 6.00

Obtainable at the Hongkong Daily Press Office and from the Local Booksellers.

PRINTING.

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE. Proofs read by Englishmen.

In the name of ANTONIO. OSORIO:- Serip No, 380/382...2129/2503 in scrip

75 Shares. of 15 383 ..4599/4553 381/386...2814/1898 io serig

of 25

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387-

4698/4720

TH 25

389/391 3826/8500 in scrip

Of 25

992

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of 25 317/320...19051/19150 in scrip

of 25

100 321/324...16951/19050 in scrip

of 25

100 $25/328., 19151/19350 in serip

of 50

25

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22:00

In the name of TAM BON CHIU-- Scrip No. 329/336 19551/19750 in scrip

200 Staros. of 25 337 ...19751/19788

18940/18950) 40 23506/23605 100 20606/23625 20

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. May trn 100.

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

INTERNAL PRESSURE OF SUN AND PLANETS

table use. The plint flourishes in moist places, į peculiarity being the production of both undergroned and corial tubers.

The now illuminating gas of Blan, Augsburg chemist, is prepared in a special

A PERFECT SCREW—A NEW DENTAL ENGINH -KEEP THE HEART YOUNG-TEMPERATURE MADE SPECIES-THE BODY IN WATEL BUN SPOTS AND TIDES-ANIKÁL SPEEDS-- | apparatus from the residuum of petroleum and PROMISING POTATOES-PORTAHLE GAB.

henry mineral oils. Great scony is claimed, with rosily portability in cylinders and isuks. public bublings, and it has the advantage of The gas gires a brilliant light for streets or

being not easily exploded.

Estimating the physical conditions of the sun and the planets, Prof. T. J. J. See has cal [culated the prosanres due to gravity, with results that are certainly striking. At the earth's centre the pressure is so unormous that figures givo only à fuint idea of it, and it may be stated to be as great as that of a esluma of mercury 7898 times a high as the Eiffel Tower. At the sun's centro-who can conceive of it - the probable pressure is nearly 212 billion. atmospheres! To exort such a pressure under terrestrial gravitation, a column of merony would have to be high enough to extend beyond

the BaB.

So important is the matter of a standard screw for gun fittings and other accurate work that a committes of the British War Office has

A special spent four years upon the problem. lathe the only one of its kind in the world- has been coustruoted, and the screw at Inst produced in regarded as a umevel of scientifio It is thras feet long, with no dovin. secarasy. tion in any part of more than ene tes-thousand-b part of an inch.

The spring-motor of Dr. Eorent, a Frenchi sargson-dentist, rotates a flexible callo 500 to 1,500 times per minato, running twelve minutes to an hour and a half according to the work performed, and in ialouded for dental and boue- entting operations, massaging, etc. It is wound It has provon by the help of a mefailic cord. oxcoeliugly nseful where electric power is not available, and can be taken to patents' homes, or elsewhere.

Taghart is the pame giv u Xavier Dybovski's It looks like special kind of curdled milk. cream-leere, but has o tasla so disagreeable that

THE" WENCHOW" AND THE

WHALE.

The China Navigation Co's steamer Wenchor, Captain Packett, while on a voyage froza Shanghai to Clefon, mat with an adrea- ture which is almost unique in the annals of shipping. She left Shanghai as the 20th of April and arrived at rbo N. E. Promoutcry at 2.18 a.m. on the 23rd. Alceste Island was passed

ht

to

9.40 a.m., distance off, cine mile, and twenty minutes later ths Captain and chief officer who wore on the bridge kooping na vyo open for wines, discorned black objeet two points on the port how, which on examination proved to be a whale blowing. While watching it, it ecunded and a minute after struck the Wen- chon on the port how under water, shaking her from stem to stern. It then nuder the bottom of the ship, easing her

Thanseel quiver all over, utsl got foul of the propeller, lmost bringing the engines op standing for two or three revolutious, as the bludus slated into the huge mass, Clear of the ship it reared its operiods hend out of the water for fully 50 feet, spouting blood and colouring the sea all round Down it dived, lashing the wa into red four with its tail. Then up again and over showing the fearful gashes on its side. Dawn and up it rolled and tumbled in its death throes, sach sacceeding movemen getting weaker than the last. The last theo on the Wenchete saw of the whale it was lying quivering on the surface of the water. It was judged by those on board to be over 10 fast --N-C. Daily News.

GARRISON ORDERS.

HEAD QUARTERS HONGKONG, 9th May. 905 GARRISON ORDERS;-ourt Inquiry-No.

1. A Court of Inquiry, in accordance with

'DARTRING

5

Fine Skin

is made finer, and had is made better by.

'DARTRING' ‘LANOLINE'

No imitation can wear the Duuing

No imitation can be called Dartrang

""HARTRING" TOILET 'LANOLIÑE

a quila,gible rules

DARTRING LANOLINE TOILET SOAP

MAN

Demand the genuine

M. Figlberm Vladuch, Londen, kng.

JOHN

70-1

ROBERTSON & SON. LTD.

J. R. D.

WHISKIES WHICH WE SELL

HAVE BEEN AWARDED

GOLD & SILVER MEDALS

AT THE

CAPE TOWN INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

DOES THIS PROVE OR NOT THAT WE SELL ONLY THE BEST?

as a remedy for growing old it is declared to be Para, 334 King's Regulations will assemble at AND RESIDENTS.

worse than the disease.

The art of keeping young, we are told by Prof. Goldscheider, of Berlin, consists in keeping sound the blood-vessels, for we are only as old as the heart and the arteries. Long life is best ensured by only attention to the lart, though care begun in old age will often accom- plish much. A great danger lice in abnormal the organ, and little injuries deniands on accumulate, so that serions burm must com from frequent repetitions of the nse of heart poison like a'cohol or tobacen, of eating too much, of too great muscular effort, or even of meital overwork. Moderation in all things is romil. Exercise should not be violent nor to little in amount, elasticity of the blood vessels should be promoted by frequent exposure of the skin to air and water, and work, food and sleep should be thoughtfully adjusted. Ola prople nel constant movement, with not tog much sleep.

The artificial production of new species of animal as well as of plant life opens up sturtling possibilities. In his years of experiments, Prof. Standfus, of Zarich, his taken 6,000 or mors ordinary caterpillars in different stages of metamorphoses, and has exposed thorn to abnormal temperatures varying from 25 deg. to 100 deg. F. They mostly developed into, Butterfles of ancient species, now very rars while some produced new and wholly unknown species. Ono spring butterfly had sammer des. cendants of different form and colour, but the chrysalis of this second form yielded the pivot variety at the proper temperature.

The human body has been lately proven by De Ferrier, a French investigator, to be some timos heavier and sometimes lighter than pure water, so that a person may float in salt water! al sink in fresh. Abnormal lightness seems to ocear in certain victims of hysteria and nervous disease, and in witchcraft days the trial by-water" would have convicted such unfortunates as being in league with the devil.

The world's roses are estimated by J. G Baker, F. R. S., to include 69 primary species

Of these 20 grow native in Europo; 26 in Northern Asia; 18 in Western Asia: 9 in India, 10 in Western North America; 6 in Eastern North America.

In considering that the planets produce tides in the sun's atmosphere, M. Emile Ancoaux 760 Shares classifies aneh tides sa binary, ternary and qanternary, according to the number of planets soting together in opposition of conjunction. The ternary tide, due to the combined action of Jupiter, Venus and the earth, is supposed to be the most important factor in regulating the appearance of spots, and, a curve showing the flactuations in the strength of this tido, as 360 Shares. calciated from the planetary positions, Egroes GIVEN that fairly well with the sun-spot curve for the years Duplicate Certificates for the said 1,120 Shares 1891 to 1905. This tarnary tile has a period will be issued one month hence, and that the of eleven years, its variations being due to Original Certificates unless produced within planetary eccentricities, chiefly to those of that period will thereafter be held by the Jupiter. Company as null and void,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

1138 Hongkong, 4th May, 1905.

NOTICE IS HEREBY

VISITORS CANTON

Should purchase FROM HONGEỞNG TO CANTON

BY THE PEARL RIVER."

CAPTAIN C. V. LLOYD (8.6. "HAMKOW" With Illustratione, Maps and Plane.

Price........mikro us

$1.90

BY

Ou Bale atm

Hongkong: "DAILY PERĦS” ONE,

Mestra. KELLY & WALSH, Mosers. W. BEEWEE & Co. Mosta. A. S. WATSON & Co.

Canton: Hongkong, sth October, 1903.

The speed table of animals of Mr. Thomson Seton, us calculated from actual timings by stop watch, credits the greyhound with 34 miles an hour, the pace-borso with 32, thu American prong-horn antulops with 3, the American "jack-rabbit" with 28, the common for with 20, the cuyots or foxhound with ga and the American grey wolf "with 2. A man's best speel is 14 miles an hour, the orditury runner -being 12,

Lyemun at H, am. the 1th instant, for the purpose of investigating the can of a fre there on tih instant. Pres d-ne: Majo R A. Kaye Royal Garrison. Artillery. -mi An Officer. boyal Engineers, Oficer je attend Proceedings in duplicate to be for. Barracks. All witnesses daly require warded to the Chief Staff Officer.

o

Allowances.-No. 2. The General Officer

Commanding has decided that the Annual Acontrouente, shall in future cease to be Allowance of Materials for repairing drawn from Army Ordnance Department, by Units other than Infantry, in this Command.

articles of Accoutrements become repair- ablo, they shall be vunded into Army Ordnance Workshops accompanied by Artay G. 1015 prepared in copying ink.

R.I.M.Dufferin No. 3. The RIM.S. "Bufori arrived from North to-day. It is notified for information that this vessel will New proceed direct from here to Bombay. And will not call at Singapore, Eangoon or Calcutta,

By Order.

R. A. Ross, Major,

Chief Staff Office.

THE NECESSITY.

OF

brushing the teeth morning and evening becomes a pleasure if you nẠO

CALVERT'S

CARBOLIC

Tooth Powder

with its delicate perfume and agricable taste,

It preserves the teeth by thorough

and antiseptic cleansing, and also gives them the requisite polish without injuring the enamel.

Galvert's Prickly-heat Soap

is very serviceable in hat dinates as preventive of prickly-heat and other irritation of the skin. It is pleasantly perfamed and contains 16 Crysl Carbolic.

These articles can be readily obtained from most Chemists and Storskerpers.

F. C. Calvert & Go., Manchester,

YASLARD,

75--3

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS"

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COALS.

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TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

TOTAL FUNDS at Jist Decemure, 1903, £16,898,650.

I. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000

SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000) Paid-ur CAPITAL

IL. FIRE FUNDS

687,500 0 3,056,981 12 3

0

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents,

(188 Hongkong, 18th June, 1904,

AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN. BURANCE CO.

·OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.

THE Undersigned, having been appointed TH

AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIKE at Current Rates.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.

3,00

Agents,

Hongkong, 21st April, 1697

1.00

OF NAVAL GUNS and their Subecquoat Use with the Ladysmith Relief Columa WABLIKE EXPLOITS OF

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