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BANKS

THE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITED

(INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL

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CHARTER

CAPITAL BUBSCRIBED

You 5,000,00 2,500,00

CAPITAL PAIN-UP

HEAD OFFICE, TAITEH, FORMOSA.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:

Kobe

Nawasaki

Osaka

Shanghai

¡Amoy

Anping

Foochow

Keelong

Interest allowed on

HONGKONG OFFICE:

3. DES VEUX ROAD.

BANKS

THE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1906.

YORA LIMITED.

FOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

ESTABLISHED 1880.

CAPITAL SURATKIBED ... Yan 24,000,000 CAPITAL PAID-UP

21.000,000 3.000.000 13,700,000

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.

CAPITAL UNCALLED .............

RASAVE FUND.

Taina

aratui

HEAD OFFICE—YOKOHAMA.

Tokia

Yokohama

Tokyo

Osaka

London

San FranciscG

Shanghai

Current Anconat

Deposita received on terms which may be learned

on application.

999

D. TONDOW, Manoger: Hongkong, 1st July, 1906, THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY BOTAL CHAT, 195: HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.

CAPITAL PAYD-UP....... RESELFS LIABILITY

HOLBARS...

OP SHARE-

****... £975,000

RESERVE FURD....

INTEREST allowed on Current å smeent of the rate of 21, par soum on the Laily Intaneos On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per cent

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Hongkoor, fəth May, 1966.

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Bianager.

BG MERCANTILE BANK OF

INDIA, LIMITED.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL

SunSCLIDAD

PAID-UP

REBELTE FUND_2AAARIN

BANKERS!

Dalay

Pert Arthur

Kobe

Nagasaki

Lyons New York Honolzin

Tientain

Bombay Newchwans

Poking Makien Tie-ling

Chefoo

LONION BANKERS, THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LIMITOI. PARR'S BANK, LIMITED. THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITHS BANK LIMITED.

BONOLONG INTERT ALLOWED, On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cout por sunum on the daily balaNOS. ·

Un fixed deposita for 12 mouths 3, per annum

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TAKEO TAKAMICHÏ,

Manager. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1906.

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NTERNATIONAL DANKING

CORPORATION.

Fiscal Agents of the United States in China the Philippine Ishands and the Republic of Panama,

SURPLUS AND ACTHORISED CAPITAL PAID Lir... RESERVE FUND

£1,500,000

1,125,700

CAPITAL

562,500

133,000

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANE, LIMITED.

INTEREST allowed on Carcoal Accounts at (no rate of 2% per annum on the Daily balan ON FIXED Derosite

For 12 months,.

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Hongkong, 26th March, 1906.

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Gold $10,000,000 Gold 83,260,000 ..Gold $2,250,000 HEAD OFFICE: New York. LONDON OFFICE: Threadnewsile House, E.C Branches and Agents all over the World LONDON BANKERS. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMITED UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANK

Limerke,

BRITISH SEN COMPANY BANK. The Corporation transacts very description » Banking and Exchange business, receives money in Current Account and accepts Fixed

per cut, per annum,

[ONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK Deposits at the following rates-

ING CORPORATION

For 12 months 44 For G

PAID-UP CAPITAL ....

Паникта Г-

STERLING RRBERTE...$10,000,000

BILVIS RESERVE

10,250,000

-$20,250,000

RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROP"TORS $10,000,000 ||

CouST OF DIRECTORS.

A. HAUPT, Esq.-Chairman.

G. H. MEDHURST, Esq.-Deputy Chairman,

G. Builoub, Brg.

E. Goetz, Esq.

A. J. Raymond, Esq.

It. Show, Esq. Hon. Mr.W.JFrasson, ¦ N. A. Sieba, hog

C. R. Loreman, Esq. I. E. Tomkins. Erq. D. M. Niesim, Esq.

CHIEF MANAGER

Hongkong-J. E. M. SMITH

ACTING MANAGER ↑

Shanguni-W. ADAMS ORAM.

For 3

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Managor. Qamru's Read, Central, Hongkong, 29th September, 1905.

1450

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

DUST PICTURES

SALT ROLLEN

The entire stomsch was first successfully

I removed by Schlater of Zurich in 1897. B.

Vassallo, a

surgeon of Argentina, reports baving now porformed 17 pyloroctomies, and |considers the gravity of thess operations wore apparent than real. Four months after the EARTHQUAKE SICKNESS last completo removal of this organ, the patient

SPRING OF "LAUHER'A

BEARINGS FOR CANM JQEID NITROGEN-BRITAIN'S THUNDER-

STORKS RUBBER FUCED LEATHER - NIGHT BISEASE THE SUPERFLUOUÝ STOMACH.

AND

Acoustic or Chladui figares, produced in sand by. the vibrations of a plate or membrano, aro nually highly symmetrical, but vary greatly with the shape of the plate, the way It is supported and sel vibrating, and with other conditions. In aluwing the possibilities of this carious kind of picture-making at a late soiree of the Londou Royal Society, Joseph Goold strewod a littlo paguosia on a steel plate several feot lang by three inches wide and 2 inch thick, supported en four rubber points near the onds. The symmetry of the figures produced was modifiod | or destroyed at will by changing the place of suull clamps. Ou oxciting one of two closely tunud mets of vibrations, the other became nctive, and quite extraordinary flestuations resulted. The model line extending length- ¦ wice along the plate opened out into twa lives, surging to and fro The maguesia ja each line performed extra dintry gyratious resem bling the motion of smoken clouds, the two model lines across the end sogarated into peculiar spirals, and there were other strange affoets

A singular spring lately discovered in Now Mexich disulazgos autanted soflion of sulium sulphate at a temperature of 110 degrees F. The weight of the liquid is 1023 pounds per gallon, that of distilled water being only 81/3 pounds. The overflow from the spring has solidified into a perfetly local snow white bed of sodum salts, miles in ortent,

A street car quippad with roller bearings, first adjusted and graphited, has been run ia Hatovor without further attention for six montba. The bearings have shown to percept- ible wear, and toats indicate an economy in power of 23 per, ont, while the antud ming includes the meal coal of oiling and attendance.

The new chemistry of cold has placed in our workshops a series of liquid substances that have been known hitherto only in gasson form. Investigating nitrogen, H. Brimenu finds that when passed from a cylinder through a cooling warm into a cylindrical copper vessel cooled in liquid air, this gas en bo quifed in largo quantities at any pressure between 127 and 2.5 atmospheres, and then, ox Ektoring, is a per- fectly colorless, mobile lipid. Not only is but abecinte alcobol siuks in this ĉiquid, confirming the estimate placing its density at 0.7914. Hav. PAID UP CAUTLAL FL. -15,000,000 (£3,750,000), iar a lower temperature, liquid nitrogen is u REKERVE PURD... F. 5,000,000 (£117,000). | more efficient cooling agent than liquid air.

TEDERLANDSCUE HANDEL.

MAATSCHAPPIJ. NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY), ESTABLISHED 1824.

Bermusic.

HEAD-OFFICE IN AMSTHEDAK. HEAD-AGENCY: BATAVIA. Branches:Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Bourabaya, Charbon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroes, Tjilatjap, Padang, Medan (Deli), Palembang, Kota

(Acheen) Telok-Bomare. (Acheon)

Correspondeuts

Нисана, Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry, Calcutta, Bangkok, Suigon, Haiphong, fungi. Amoy, On Current Account at the rate of Two por Yokohama, Kobe, Melbourne, Sydney, New Cent, per Ausam on the daily balance.

York, San Francisco, e, &c.

LONDON BANKERS:- THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANE,

LONDON BANKEES-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPany, Limited.

RONGKONG-INTEKST ALLOW*n.

ON FIXED DEPOSITS.

For 3 months, 24 par oust per Aaam. For monthe, Si per caal. per Annum,

For 12 months, 4 per cent. per Anzum.

H. R. B. HUNTER,

Acting Chief Manager. IDOS. 23 Hongkong, 17th September, D

DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK. CAPITAL FULLY PAID UP...Sh. Taels 7,500,00

HEAD OFFICE-ÕHangka), BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BRII,

BRANCHES :

Bario. Caleatie, Hankow, Peking. Tientsin, Teinsafo, Tsingtau, Kobo, Yokohama, Singapore.

Founded by the following Banks and

Bankers →→

KOENIGLICH SEEHANDLUNG (PREUSSISCH B

STAATSBANE} Berlin.

DIRECTION DER DISCONTO-

GESELLSCHAFT

DEUTSCHE BANK

S. BLEICHROEDER

BEP LINKE

GESKILSCHAFT

BANK FVER

INDUSTRIK

HANDELS

HANDEL UND

ROBERT WAESCHAUER & Co.

MENDELSSOHN & CO.

Berlin.

باد

LIMITED.

The Bank boys and sells and receives for collection Bills of Exchange, iesues letters of credit on its Branches ad Correspondents in the East, on the Contineat, and in Great Britain, Amerien, and Australia, and transa ots Banking Business of every description.

INTEREST ALLOWED.

balances.

On Current Accounts 2% per sunum on daily Fixed Deposits 13 moutha 44% per annum.

dv.

& do. 4% do. du.

3 do. 312 do.

L ENGEL, Agent, [1450 Hongkong, 23rd July, 1906.

AUTOMATIC MAUSER

PISTOLS.

CALIBRE 7.63 mm. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS is.2 SECONDS.

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong. 3rd October, 1905

MERCHANT NAVY

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DAVID CORSAR & SON'S

CANVAS

M. A. VON ROTHSCHILD &

BOBINE

Frankfurt aM.

JACOB S. H. STEEN

NOBUYBUTACHSBANE IN HAMauad, Hamburg. SAL. OPPENHEIM, J., & Co., Koeln.

851

BAYERISCHE HYPOTHEKEN-UND WECHARK-

BANE, MUENCHÈ.

LONDON BANKERS; - MATE. N. H. ROTHSCHILD & Row. THE UNION OF LONDON AND Surnu's BANK LIMITED. DEUTSCHE Bank (Resin), London ÅGENOT DIRECTION DER DISCONTO Gellschaft.

INTEREST allowed on Current count, DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange business transant, HUGO SUTER,

Manager.

Hongkong at May, 1906.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

THE

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THE Business of the above Bank is condiza ted by the HONGKONG AND SHANG- HAI BANKING CORPORATION, Roles may be obtained on application.

INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 3h PAR CANT. pet DUI

Depositore may transfer at their option balan.com $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAT BARE to be placed or FIXED DEPOSTA at 4 PER CERT, par sanum.

For the HomeKONG AND SHANGHAI

RANKING CORPORATION,

H. ER. HUNTER,

Acting Cuist Manager.

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Hongkong, 30th May, 1900

NAVY BOILED

LONG FLAX

RELIANCE CROWN TARPAULING

ARNHOLF, KARBERG & CO

Sola Aganiz.

TYPEWRITERS CLEANED, REPAIRED, OVERHAULED

TYPEWRITING -WORK UNDER.

TAKEN. Charges moderate.

F. A. V. RIBEIRO (late of the Hongkong Typowriting Bureau)' MA, Queen's Road Contrai (First Floor). Hongkong, 25th October, 1905.

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SURGEON DENTIST..

No. 10, D'AQUILAR STREET.

TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation Free. Hongkong, 21st September, 1965

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It is a good solvent for liquids of low boiling point, and nixes in all proportions with liquid cxygen or liquid ozone

was in excellent health, with no inconvenience except the newssity of eating often and but little at a time.

POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, September 26th.

BEFORE MR. I H J. GOMPERTZ FIRST POLICE MAGISTRATE),

A BUDE AWAKENING,

A. Hans and B. Furlong, two nuemployed seamen, wore charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with assaulting A. Roland," another seaman, in the Sailor's Home on Tuesday.

From the evidence stappoared that defendants, who were under the infuozeo of liquor, mutered prosecutor's room while he was asleep and proceeded to fist him.

Defendants wern each Rurd $10,the alternativa being fourteen days' impriwamont.

KEBAULTING A PRISONEE,

George Streat, a warder in Victoria Gaol, was charged with assulting a prisoner nameð Wao Lak.

Mr. Craig, superintendentof the jail, said the defondant was alleged to bure poskod the prisoner with a trancheon, mud as a result of the poke the latter had to be removed to hospital.

Defendant ploaded not guilty and the ci was adjourned till Satne lay, bail being fired at

$500.

Bework Ma. F. A. HAZELAND (SECOND

POLICE MAGISTEATH).

RAT CATCHERS' QUAERII.. Six natives who were indulging in the pastime of bunting rats at Bossad Street, West Point on Tuesday, coms to blows, the result baing that they appeared before His Worship yesterday to answer the charge of fighting-

The trouble arose through one of the bunterg whe shoed a stauning blow at a rat with a bataboe, missing the mark and striking another

man on the shin. Then sides were formed and The combatants wore belabouring was another

with sticks when the police intervened,

His Worship fined each of the defondanta 35.

A CONTRADICTION.

**HARYAN

CORRECTED.

Every dictionary and every vocabulary bers Singapore was somuned, to discover en epithet bad enough for a Governor, who told back from lising the sterling value of the dollar. Suddenly, His Excellency fixed the dollar; so suddenly and It is inert toward facially, indeed, that bis action comparad most subutaness, and oven metals like eskiam and magnesium do not readily combine with it; hat a mixture of calcium drillings and Bquid nitrogen is ignited by thermite and continues to burn a long time, forming esleium nitride.

From the records of 25 years, F. J. Brodie has found that July in the mouth of the largest number of thunderstorms over Great Britain a whol. For the whole year the largest number is over this Eastern and Northern parts of England, where more than 75 occur, while there are less than five in the West and South of Ireland and at most pleens in the North of Scotland. The summer distribution is very similar to that for the year. The winter distribution is quite different, however, and the

largest numbers then occur along the West coast of Ireland and Scotland and the extreme South-west of England.

with the subsequent notification of firmation was evidently permitted to escapes a the Tanjong Pagar Award, sowet which in-

week or ten days before this official declaration. At this, everybody straightway rushed again to dictionaries and vocabularis. to see if really, after all, there could not be found some more opprobrioas description of a Governor, who had displayed the Lardihood to fix the dollar st 24. And then His Excellency went home, to obtain a short respite from climatic and human peenliar ities of the Straits. Thus, the Colony obfained at Just the frity of ita dellar, and the world outsido hoped the Colony like it. But the Colony cared then, and cares now, very little about the topes of the outside world, generally, though it may derm of some interest what Hongkong thinks about a

fixed and an unfixed dollar. Yes, Hongkong lags bebin her more success!

s ful sister, Singapore, and stands like a peri outside paradise; excluded from the enjorment of fixity. And this is how a writer in the Hon thong Daily Fs, who rejoices in the sobriquet of "Banyan, permits himself to dilate spou

tuz subject: As all interested in local finezce are aware, the dollar is worth 22. This is the

bighost price it has actual for many years-indeed wo bare to go back to 1906 to find the dollar te value, and then the preneuting so great a average for the your was 2/2 while for the twe prerions years the average worked out at 2/11. Of contas everyone knows that the dollar is only about half the value that it was thirty In 1874 the average for the year was is. 24. Then the average fell each past by | about our peony, sometimes groster and some timeless fluctuatious, but its greatest drop took place in the beginning of the nineties, when for three years thereweed each Janary_and decline of about fourpancu noticeable between December. Since 1891 the dollar bas remained A solation of the problem of coating leather

he region of two shilings, and though it with rubber is claimed by Joseph J. Steinbarter ross to 2: 9 two years later it had a big fall in vf Philadelphia. In his newly patented process, 102 and 1903. It is doubtful even if the fixing tho leather passes auder a wire brush that raises of the dollar, which so macy regard as a uap on the surface, and is then fed between two sanatica deroutly to be wished," would be a

alcautagoons as its advocates claim. Tras, relle, eno at a temperature of 100 degrees Fould eliminate much of the speculation that at and the other at 300 degrees a recaptacle fillod presont is so undesirable and would help to with thin unvulcanized rubber being placed steady cortaid commercial relationships, bab at love the bite of these rolls with a funnel- the same time it would be liable to serious con

sequences, were the price of allvar to fall to say shaped nozzle to convey the material to the extent in the great empire on which we depen t face of the leather and distribute it evenly over for our trade. The experience of Singapore is the surfice. A third roll, at 300 degrees drawe not very encouraging, where any busine rubber is thin film from a plastic mass beneath, houses report serious losses and some bave hear brought to bankraptor. On the whole it seems pressing it upon the already thinly coated better to tolerate the illa that we know rather leather. The first coating acts as a cement to than risk greater b

Seasickness is pravea by Dr. Charles Davison tobe a common effect of earthquakes. The feeling of nauses way be produced by whooks losling not more than eight or ten seconds and whose vibrations have a total range of only a suali Traction of an inch, and in one slight English aga carthynske too small to injure any buildings- about one observer in fifty was affected. The fealing usually lasts for minutes, though sometimes poreisting an hour or more.

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which the film odbores, and the layer thus formed attempts at standardisati and ill-considered

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is afterward vulcanized. The vulcanized rub ber layer is practically infetachable, being hold by the fibers of the uap imbedded in it. Medical treatment almost wholly confined te the daytime is thought by Dr. Lauder, a French physician; to be a serious pristaks Diseiuse is most motive at night-asthma, epilepsy and other attacks coming then almost entirely,--and observations have shown that medicine administered in the night hours or IMPORTED EVERY MONTH, THERE. both night and day, acts better and with greater

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KYNOCK'S SPORTING daytime. It is explained that in the nocturnal CARTRIDGES 8, 10, 12, 16, and 20 BORE fasting state the body absorbs remedia with and NEWCASTLE CHILLED SHOT in greater energy, while they are eliminated less al Sites, Nos. 10 to 8880. AIR GUNS and quickly. In many instances

disease has AMMUNITION in Variety.

resisted all medication by day, but has yielded to aight treatment.

CARTRIDGES.

WM, SCHMIDT & CO.

Hongkong. 25th November, 1902

893

We shall Lavt wait to learn what Singapore has to say in respect to Buuya a remarks, but join issue at once and deny the truth a to these bankrupteles and losses. Many business rious bonses ja Singapore have not reported a losses, arising from the fixity of the dollar, sad Got a single house has be- brought to bank- HOL ruptcy owing to the action of the Governor in placing that Brity at 21. Where Banyan has. got hold of the information, we do not know. and we do not cure; but we would ask our much- respected contemporary to contradict the state- ment, without delay, and notify its readers that there is no foundation for this imaginative result of the Sixity of the dollar in the Straits Settlements.-Straite Timer.

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