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THE

ROBINSON

PIANO CO.

WE HAVE

TO-DAY

REMOVED

то

BANKS

THE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23ɛd, 1905,

OKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED 1830,

CARIZAL BUDBORTAND

Ten 24,000,000 18,000,000

9,942,000

CAPITAL PAID-UP ........................ # 6,000,000

CAPITAL UNCALLED .... # RESERVE FUNDARIE

HEAD OFFICE-YOKOHAMA,

BRANCHES AND 'AGENCIES.

Toby'

Osaka

Kobe Lyons

London

Honolulu

San Francisco

Tientsin

Shanghai

Paking

Nagaanhi New York Bombay Newwohwang Mukden

Dalny

Chofos Tie-ling

Port Arthar

LONDON BANKEUS,

THE LONDON Joint SzocK BANK, LIMITEL PARE'S BANK, LIMITED, THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITHS BANE, LIMITED,

HONGKONG-INTEREST ÅLLAWED. On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent per annum on the daily balance. On fixed deposita for 12 monthe 5', perazuna

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Manager.

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1905.

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LONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK.

ING CORPORATION

·PAID-UP CAPITAL..

10. DES VEUX RD. ERETE FUND

OPPOSITE

THE KING EDWARD HOTEL

AND

MESSUS. WM. POWELL, LD.

THE ROBINSON

PIANO CO., LD.

Hongkong, 21st November, 1905.

13035

THE

BANKS

HE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITED (INCORPORATED BY SPRIAL IMPERIAL CHARTER

CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED ........... Yen 5,000,000 CAPITAL PAID-UP

***» 2,500,000

KALD OFFICE: TAIPIE, FORMOSA.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:

Amoy

Kobe

Anping

Nagasaki

Foachow

Osaka

Kelang

Shanghal

Tainan Kameni Tokio Yokokams

HONGKONG OFFICE:

4, QUEEN'S LOAD. Interes allowed on Current Account. Deposita received on term which may be learnt on appliation.

8. SHIGEAGA, Managar. Longlong, 1st November, 1904.

12478

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,

INCORPORATED BY ROL CHARTER, 185: HEAD OFFICE LONDON.

CAPITAL PAID-UP............rt RESERIE LIABILITY OF

HOLDERS BRJEEVE FUND...

SHARD-

280,00 .£875,900.

INTEREST allowed a Curient Account a: Le ratsef 2% per annamon the Daily balances, On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per cent

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Hongkong, 18th May, 1905.

Manager,

...................................$10,000,000

STERLING RESERVE...$10,000,000

SILVER RESTRYE 8,500,000 $18,500,00€

ROSHEVE LIABILITY OF PROF'TOR.$10,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS.

H. A. W. SLADD, Esq.-Chairman. A. HAUPT, Eng.-Deputy Chairman. F. Sulinger, Esq.

Hon, C. W. Dicken,

E. Gloota, Esq.

K. Shellim, Esq.

C. R. Lenzmana, Esq.

N. A. Siebe, Esq.

G. H. Medhurst, Esq.

A. J. Raymond, Esq

Hon. R. Shown

CHISE MANAGER Hongkong. E. M. SMITH

MANAGER

Shanghai-H. E. R. Hunter.

LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNT! BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED. HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED,

On Current Acount at the rate of Two par Coat. por Annum on the daily balanco.

ON FIXED Deposite.

BILIOUSNESE-ITS SYMPTOMS.

BILE BEANS A SPLENDID REMEDT.

you soon know it. If When you are bilións. the room gets warm you feel you're going to be elek. If you hurry to catch a car or a train there the feeling is again. Headaches, turuing off with sickness, a nasty conted tongue, are other symptoms of billousness, and a symptom most distressing to the female sex is the fearful colour which the face comes to green-yellow have if biliongnoss is allowed to continue. Bile Beaus end bilionsness by promoting the proper secretion of the bile.

On and off for three years I Befered from biliousness in a very acute ferin," says Mr. Ros of Signal Station Hotel. Wale St., Capetown, South Africa. My whole system coomed to be completely run down. I had severe pains in my stomach; my head ached terribly, and I was always tired and orhansted. Food would not stay on my stomach, and this weakened me considerably. I was debilitated and depressed. Tho billeux attacks wore very distressing. causing me to be sick, and leaving me almost completely prostrate.

had medical attention for six weeks in a hospital

at Malmaui, in the Transraal, but obtained nothing better than temporary relief. Medicines of all descriptions also I tried, but with no beneficial results. I heard about Bile Beans and gave them a trial. After taking the contents of one box I experienced ecashlerable relist, and every day afterwards the improve ment continued. I am now, after taking thorough course of Bile Voany, in excellent health, free from all symptoms that gare me se much trouble previously; in fact, I feel an entirely different man. I have recommended Bile Beans on many occasions, and shall

continue to do EO,"

Bilo Beaus are a cure for indigestion, anemia, weakness, temale silmouts, heat fag, malaria, neuralgia, lamhage, chamatism, debility, palpitation, pains in the back piles, constipation. sleeplessness, loss of appetite, liver complaint. headache, flatulence, pimples, skin eruptions and all ailments having common origin iu impurity of blood, fall chemists and medicine vendors. Price 75 cents (3lex.) per bottle.

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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

THE COMING FAD-ELECTRICITY IN HOUSE- WORK CHART PHOTOGRAPHY SAVAGE

of bubbles which are blown by the male- |-· until the eggs are raised shave the water and are so hatched.

In teaching a parrot to talk, the usual plan is to hide babind a screen, or to cover the cage und repeat over and over the words to be said. The average bird takes a weak to learn a single- is The task of teaching, therefore, sentence. very tedious, and the happy thought of the wife of a loading bird faucier promises to become great labour-saving idea. It occurred to her to at the task upon the phonograph. The first speriment, upon eight birds, has proven highly Haceessful, and they are rated as the finest talkorn in the world, with a high valuo.

The most beautiful wild Bower is claimed to be the Table Mountain Orchid (Disa grandiflora) of South Africa. It is popularly. known as the Flower of the Godle, is no casily cultivated, and is at its best in Jane and July. Its roost brilliant colours are scarlet, light ross and gold.

The alpha rays of radium have been found by Prof. Rutherford to bare one eleventh as great velocity as light.

LIFE IN BARRACKS. Nowadays, when there is so much talk of Army reform, there is a tendency to lose sight of the many disadvantages under which the soldier latours. No doubt much has been done in recent years to improve life in the ranks; but moch remains yet to be done, and the Army in still das of the last resources of men with any баз refinement or delicacy of feeling.

To begin with, although there was much talk recently of providing the men with cubicles, nothing has as yet been done in that direc. to, and the barrack-room still remains the only place in which the soldier has to sleep, get his meals in and clean his accoutrements. Only one who has lived in a barrackroom can Lave any conception of what the life really is. The room is certainly cleanutt out once a day; bat nu sooner is the midday inspection over than it returns to its habitual sordid and filthy condition in fact more cheertex and dismal place can hardly be jagined. As a rulo, for balf the week it is rendered even more cheerless is by the absenco of a fire. Fuel, of course, provided; but like so many other things in the

is supplied in sneh quantities as to b Army, totally undeonto for the purpose for which it is issued.

Thus, in cold weather the coal supplied for

FIKE-MAKING - NESTS MADE OF BUSHLEach room for the week rarely lasts half that BIED TRAINER-time, and it becomes necessary for the man to buy coal for the rest of the work out of their own pocket. Nor is this the only direction in which

THE FRONOGRAPH AS A A GORGEOUS FLOWER.

Airship travel seems to be already popular.The supply falls short of the requirements. In W. de Forvigila estimates that 700 or 800 food, clothing, and almost everything else the balloon voyages are now made annually, and free issue is far too small. As regards food, states that the members of the French Aero the soldier is entitled to 1lb. of bread and 371. of mest per day. The latter, before it reaches Club alone made more than 200 last year. The forms and colours of the clouds, the brightness, the table, has an extraordinary habit of shrink- and the new views of the earth given wonderfuling. Certainly by the time it is cooked and charm to aky automobiling. This is increased the bans taken ont it is nearer a yrarter of a at night anul Camillo Flammarion, whoss wed-pound in weight than three-quarters. Then ding trip was made is a balloon, har expressed when the meat is cooked it is invariably spoilt, as the Army cook by no stretch of f the imagina Lis. surprise at the splendour of the lights of G great city-in this case Paris-as well as at the tion can be termed & chof, brillioncy of the constellations. The number of the stara is unbelievable, the dog-sar becomes as bright as Venus, while some of the nebulec appear like gas-jets. The shooting stars are terrifying. Their explosions seco to be heard, and this may be really true, as the balloon acts like a gigantic ear-trumpet and THE MERCANTIL BANK OF catches such earthly sounds as the whistling

and INDIA, LIMTED,

barking of dogs. of docomotives

the air Hygienically, the complete renewal in the lungs is a delightful sensation.

For 3 months, 2 per cent per Annum. For 6 months, 3 per cent. per Annam. For 12 months 4 per cent. per Annum.

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager, Hengkong, 16th November, 1005,

AUTHORISED CAPITAL.

SUBSCRIBED .................

PAID-UP********

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£1,500,000 1,125,000 562,500 110,000

RAGNETE FUND „990-9

BANKERS LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LIMITED.

INTEREST allowed on Current Accountant the rate of 2°, per annum on the Daily balance. ON. FIXED DarosITS -

For 12 months...........

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replace the That electricity is goon to rasantal labour of the housemaid is the pro- diction of Col. R. E. Crompton, the English electrician. It is capable of washing dishes, kneading dough, chopping meat, and oven doing the family washing as well as many other things. The use of the motor to com press air may give a cold storage room for Domestic motors have

rory man's house.

been gruntiy cheapened, and electric lighting companies are profiting by selling current for day use at reduced prices. Acting Manager.

A. R. LINTON,

Hongkong, 30th June, 1:05.

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HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. THE Business of the above Bank is oond to by the HONGKONG AND SHANG HAI BANKING CORPORATION. Ruler may be obtained on application.

INTEREST on deposite is allowed at 3- PER CENT. DIY BARU,

Dopositors may transfer st their optit Lalances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAT BANK to be placed or FIXE! DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. per annum.

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA

BANKING CORPORATION.

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, lat May, 1902 DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK.

ALT JORISED CAPITAL....Sh. Taole 7,500,00

HEAD OFFICE-SHANGHAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BERLIN.

BLANCHES:

Bankers: no

DANKING

INTERNATIONAL BA CORPOLATION,

Fiscal Agents of the Taited States in China the Philippine islands and the Repablice Parama,

CAPITAL

+ 'ko

„Gold $10,000,000

...Gold $1,250,000

AND SĶEPLUS AUTHORISED CAFIAL PAID UP...... RESEVE FUND

...Gold $3,250,000 HEAD OFFICE: New York,

Berlin, Calcutie, Hankow, Peking. Tienta, Tsinisufo, Teingtau, Yokohama. Founded by the following Banks and KOENIGLICHE SEEHANDLUNG (PREUSSISCHE

STAATSBANK) Berlin, DIRECTION DE DISCONTO-“

GESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHE BANK

8. BLEICHBOEDER BEELINER HANDELS-

GESELLSCHAFT

BANK FUED HANDEL UND

INDUSTRIE

ROBERT WARSCHADER & Co. MAN RLSSOHN & CO.

M. A. VON ROTHSCHILD &*

SOEHND

JACOB S. H. STERK

Berlin.

Frankfurt a/M

The strange boms of a pair of swallows

To provide Lea, sugar, milk, batter, vegetablon, and other luxuries, the soldier is allowed three- pence per day, and for a healthy man motively employed to live on such a duet is impossible, und the greater part of a man's pay is swallowed up by the purchase of food.

In addition to this, the soldier has to pay out of his own packos for the up-keep of his kit us well as for all the necessary articles ned for cleaning it, such as blacking, piparlay, brass polish, and in the case of exvalry saddle casp, barnishore, &c. Then there are inner ablo other charges put upon him in the form of arrack damages, subscripticos to library, sports club, and other regimental| charges. When a soldier first joins the ser- více he is supplied with a free issue, of every- of sonp, which like thing, including a tiny piece the greater portion of his kit, is supposed to last him his seven years, or twenty-one years, if be extends his service. The same remark applies to his gocks, anderclothing, and all his small kit, while his 'uiform and boots sea supposed to last two years, and all repairs hare to be defrayed out of his own pocket. Should his uniform get sofle or shubby before he

is ander the awning of a steamer making trips--ontitled to a fresh issue, he is at once put down

along the coast of Trinidad. The birds are Peen going ashore, but evidently have no home except their floating one.

for new articles on payment. However careful a man my be, it is imposible for him to make Nach things as sucks and shirts last for seven

yu irs.

GREGOR & CO.,

19, QUEEN'S ROAD "CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR.

ITALIAN VERMOUTH

FROM

FLLI CORA, TURIN.

ITALY.

BEWARE OF OTHER SO-CALLED ITALIAN VERMOUTHS

SOLD IN THE COLONY

AND MADE IN FRANCE.

HIRANO.

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THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST, THE HIRANO MINERAL WATER CO., LD., KOBE.

AGENTS: F. BLACKHEAD & CO,

[1905

Hongkong, 16th August, 1905.

NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE

The ORIGINAL remedy that "Kas the Dandruff Germ."

side makes this, "duty such a pleasure that the

THE HERPICIDE HABIT Herplade Habis is usually formed. a hair-

uver that grows to popularity. Delights the ladies by keeping the half glit and fluffy and by giving its stiker gloss. Cures dandruff, slops falling hak. Gives ausfacciun and excites ad- miration. Stops Itching inviantly.

Careful people now consider it a duty to use i Ecalp prophylac, as it insures clestinees and freedom from dandruff microbes. The refreshing quality and exquisite fragrance of Newbro's Herp

GOING!!

GOING!

MERPICIDE WILL SAVE IT. Drug Stres, $1.001,

念

GONE !!!

HERMICIDE WILL BAYE IT,

TOO LATE FOR BERPICIDE

A. S WATSON, & Co.-HONGKONG, SPECIAL ACEsts.

Appliestirus at prominent, barber shops,

"A perfect beverage, combining Strength Purity and Solubility."-Medical Annual.

1106-19

van Houten's

Cocoa

Unequalled for

High Quality, Delicious Flavour

BEST

& Digestibility.

& GOES FARTHEST,

The insitory practices prerailing in the Russian war equipment includes a number of

numerous to mention. sots of special apperatus, provided by the Army are really too Topographic Institute of St. Petersburg, for The most disgusting, perhaps, are the uses to the automatis taking of photographs from which bedding is pat. Wheneror any equip balloons or kites. Each set is expected to pisement is to be drawn from stores it is always pictures of the entire landscape to the horizon carried in blankets off the bats. Tren, pre- on all sides, and consists of one camera covering vions to all inspections of barrack-rooms what is directly beneath, and six others areng by the commanding officer, the doors are ed in a circle around the central one with their scrubber, after which, to keep them elear axes inclined at an angle of thirty degrees. The until they are dry, and the commnuding offiser soven shatters are operated simultaneously by has been round. it is customary to spread the electric current. A leveling device is blankets over them. In wet weather it can ingeniously inserted in the circuit, with a clock be imagined the condition the blankets get is an old fallacy that men of good education into by her trampled on by men coming la work for closing the contact at any desired time,

out of the nnd and stables. Then the vanie and the insure that the automatic exposura shall take place only when the apparatus has Wankets are used for drawing rations. reched a sufficient height and is quite instanco, the daily bread is always drawn in Blanket, as well as vegetables and other things. horizontal.

It would be supposed that Blankets, which are put to se many usor would be frequently washed; but snel is not the case, and the regiment that has its hackels washed once in six months is the exception rather than the rule.

The curious fire-kindled by alives of Northern Luzon consists of a hard-wood tabe having a bore of a third or a half inch and length of two and a half inches, with a piston slightly smaller and shorter. The tube is closed tightly at one end. The piston is made tight

by a winding of waxed thread, and has ight cavity at the in nor end, the outer end being provided with a haulle A tinder of dried lint from weather-beaten timber is used. A lit of this is placed in the cavity of the piston, the latter is inserted half an inch in the tube, and is then driveu in by a smart stroke of the palm. The heat of the sudden compression sets fire to the list.

For

Another evil of the barrack-room is the scarcity of eating utensils, and rarely, if ever, is there a plate and basin for every man.

One

ara bound to get on in the Army. Such is uot the case.

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Exhaustion

EX

CHAPOTEAUT'S

Phosphoglycerate

OF LIME

The modern restoration

of the nervous system. For brainworkers, prchasto-

na mea, tenchers, students,

vic. und in debility, seminal Jessen, dyspepsia of nervous origin and isotropie.

It is readily assimilated and preotes digestion.

PHOSPHOGLYCERATE SYRUP

Amongst other inducements hold out to recraits is the prospect of a pousion; bat to get that pension he has to serve at least twenty-one years. This means that he has to give the last part of his fe, so that when he is too old to earn a living, a grateful country allows him from eightpence to eighteenpeace per day. Ent orig if a man leaves the Army after seven years service he finds his chance of earning a livelihood very small. A certain number of posts, such as old Army men, but, the vacancies do not mest can imagino tan revnision of feeling that mat policemen and postures, are, certainly, open to overcome a recruit who, after leaving a comfraction of the demand, and, as a rale, when an fortable hote, fods himself sitting down to aid soldier seeks civil employment, he might breakfast as a table where there are some almost as roll say he has just come out of gaol twenty-five or thirty men with half a dozen agent of the Army. While sneh a state of things exists it is impossible to find a desirable class basins at reen them. Caps and saucers are not known in the Army. Nor is it at allan of men for the Army, or when they are obtained, uncommon thing to see two men eating their to retain them. In no calling is there so much dinners off the same plate, or eres off the hare discontent as in the military service, and no sooner does a man find out what the Army is table itself. Then the habits of the men thetusetres are by no means nios, Fer the most thun his one ilea is to find a way of getting out part, meals are eaten in shirt sleeves with hats of it.

It is desimble that many of the nisurd en, was in every room a few men will be short of kaires and forks, for which, as substitutes, restrictions placed upon soldiers should be they we their Bagers, old razors and pocket removed. For instance, it is ridiculous to knives. Amid such surroundings it is se ureely expect a full grown toan to be in bed every likely that Thomas Atkins should cultivate night by ten o'clock, like a little boy, There politeness, and therefore all potato peelings, are innumerable other ways in which the pieces of fat, and other things he does not care regulations are unnecessarily, irksome to the to eat, sro quietly thrown off his plats on to the men, and antil they are remeliad it is absurd table er floor.

to orpeet the Service to become popularAVID Yet, perhaps, the most trying thing to a Daily Chronicle. A peculiarity of nearly or quite all of the

recrait is the flagraut dishonesty that No matter what the prevails in the ranks. fishes allied to the celebrated climbing perch" (Anabas scondens) is that they place their eggs articl, is that is left about, it is stolen, and tho on pay in rests or floats of babbles. These fishes aro

anfortnaute loser put down for another

be all brilliantly coloured, and all are natives of ment, though it is an unwritten law in the shall be the Indo-Malayan rivers except ous African Army that if a man leses anything species. Among the species making these nests given two or three days' grace in which to fud are the gourami, renowned for its excellent it, or, in other words, steel it, before he is chargal with a fresh one. And this is winked flesh, the paradise fish, and the the last so-called on account of a dant by the authorities.

kept by the Siamese for fighting. A good many of the miseries of the soldier

Acetylene lighting is quietly gabing favour, and the German Acetylene Association finds that the gas is applied the pubiie by 5 places in Germany. 202 in the United States, 18 in the United Kingdom and 19 in the British colonies, while Germany alone has 75,000 privato installations.

Rawording bird migrations. Otto Herasu, LONDON OFFICE: Threadneedle Hong, E.C. NORDDEUTSCHE BANKIN HAMBURG, Hamburg ornithologist, is surprised to find that swallows

Brnolies and Agents all over the World.

take 105 days to complete their passing from Gibraltar to Latea, in Sweden. LONDON BANKERS, NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND, LIMITED,

UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANK, INTED,

BRITISH LINEN COMPANY BANK The Corporation ixasacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, rocoives mony in Current Acount and accepta Fixed Deposits at the following rates

For 12 months 45 par cont. per annum.

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=9, Quan's Boad, Central,

Manager. Hongkong, 20th September, 1905.

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SAL. OPPEN REIN, JR., & Co., Koeln. BAYERISCHE HYPOTHEKEN-UND WECEBEL-

BANE, MUENCHE

LONDON BANKERS: Messrs. N. M, ROTHSCHILD & SON: THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANK LIMITED.

DEUTSCHE BANK (BERLIN), LONDON, AGĦNOT DIRECTION DER DISCONTO GESELLSCHAFT.

INTEREST allowed on Current Account. DEPOSITS received on terms which may be Banking and Exchange business transacted. HUGO SUTER,

Sab. Manager. Hongkong 9th September, 1905.

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FORE ALWAYS FRESH IMPORTED EVERY MONTH, THERE.

LEY'S, SCHULTZE'S, AMBERITE KYNOCK'S SPORTING LEX' CARTRIDGES 8, 10, 12, 14, and 20 BORE and NEWOASILE CHILLED SHOT AMMUNITION in Variety.

laarned on application. Every description of breed of the two latter recently studied disappear when he becomes a non-commissioned fall Size, No. 10 to 898G. AIR GUNS and

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WM. SCHMIDT & CO. by an English naturalist have built their officer. But here, again, there is corruption, bubble-raits of dome shape, in an aquarium and, as a rale, there has to be judicious use of The paradise-fish gradually increases the layers palm-oil before a man gets the first stripe. It Hongkong, 28th November, 1902,

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