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& CO. LTD.

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FOR

AND

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York Building, Chator Road.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1907.

STORAGE,

FOR COAL, TIMER, &c.

38-1

TO BE LET, a Portion of MARINE LOT

TNO. 285 at NORTH POINT, Buitable for above Purpose. EXTENSIVE WATER FRONT. DEEP WATER.

Also FOR SALE.

Portious of MARINE LOTS Nos. 31 & 38- on PRAYA EAST. Approximate AREA 43,000 SQUARE FT. 999 YEARS' LEASE.

For Particulare, apply-

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Width of Entrance on Top

Width of Entrance on Bottom..

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Water on Blocks at Spring Tida 34)

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Width of Entrance on Bottom...

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$23 teat

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PR

75

61

DOCK No. 2

Extromo Length...

$71 feet.

Length on Blocks

350

Width of Entrance on Top

38

中

53

Width of Entranoe on Bottom...

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His Majesty

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BOVRIL

By a special pricess in its preparation the Bayou, essence, nutriment and all that's good in priuio ox-beef is -

concentrated in BoyRIL

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 5rn, 1907.

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

eating, like upples and pours, are placed on sorecus to dry without this washing.

The WEAR- formaldehyde destroys the surface fungi, bacter in and other wiers-organicma which are the agents of putrefaction and decay.

THE CLAVIER PAPER TEXTILES - A

PROOF RESILIEST TYRE – ELECTRIC STEEL-

TEMPERING — PTOMAINES OF PASSION —

ELASTIC PAVING BLUE LIGHT ANESTHESIA, -NEW FRUIT PRESERVING-ELECTROGU

TION OF GERMS.

An electric filter, the invention of an Hungarian engineer, ie to by teste

In the Lospitals and laboratories of St. Petersburg It conslets of two parts,-the first bring sq arranged that the water le wibmitted to a powerful electric current for destroying any

loro-organisms it may contain, while the second is simply an ordinary filter of improred

kiad,

The manufacture of the "zyloliu" or paper yarn of Emil Clavicz, the Saxon inventor and manufacturer, sooms to have developed already into anportaut industry. The new thread from wood bor is not brittle, can be woven in crdinary looms, does not shrink or strotek appreciably, is practically unaffected by meia- ture, and is a fair substitute for enttoa, jute linen and even silk. It takes dyes batter than most fubrics. Among its produsis so far are carpets, rugs, bagging, outing hats, shoes and slippers,

liuau" towels, cartain waaring apparel, and underclothing. For garments the woven fabric has the advantages, in additioned. to extreme cheapness, of being warm and very light in weight.

SHARE REPORT.

Messrs. Erich Georg & Co. say in their wookly share raport, dated August 3st, 1907:→ Business shows no improvement, and a very small trade only has been going on. The stor liug demand rate of exchange on London clos

181., while rates on Shanghai nes rinchang. Barailver in London is quoted at 31, aud Consols £82-13:16,

BANK SHARES.-Stall odd lots of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Shares changed heads at $35 old ex now, and $5221 for now shares, insi call paid, while fractions sold at $15:19; the market closes with salists of old shares at 568), and new $320, London quotes £8 and £6) respectively; Nationals are unchanged.

MBINE Unions sold at $775, bat the market doass quist SHARES-A tow

with probable sellers, Cantons nec also quiet, although unchanged in value. Other atoske under this heading are nnchanged.

INSURANCE

An improved tyre for heavy motor vehicles, Scottish invention, has met with export approval on trial runs. It has two or more layers of solid rubber, protested at regular and close intervals by metal plates, with slotted In working on bolts of curred metal plates projecting on each side of the felloe of the wheel. Motal pads or trends are inserted in rectangular openings in the protecting plates.les; Hongkongs are on offer at 8320, už FREE INSURANCE SHARES, without any The pads, fitting into the top layer of rubber Chinas at $99.. are free to move inward, and have a、 resilient. action imparted to them by the rabber There is practically an wear on the soft parts of the tyre.

No one of the sixty hardening methods known is adapted to steel of all kinds or shapes. A new electric process of hardening consists in connecting the steel tool to the positive pols of an electric circuit and no iron tank to the negative and plunging the tool in the carbonate of potash solution in the tank. When the proper temperature is reached the current is switched off, the tool cooling in the bath. Local heating by electric aro way surve to temper in spots; and the electric current may draw the temper of hollow obj-cla

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SHIPPING SHARES, A fow Hongkong, Csuton and Macao Steamboat Shares sold at S20, but more ars offering, Indos are quite at last ratee; and so are Chins and Mouilas, Douglases are easier with sellers at $11. Star Ferries are on offer at current rates, Shell Transports sold at 40s. 61. and 478. 1. closing with sellers at 46. 61, in sympathy with a Loudou quo'stion of 455, 31, silters. Waterboats have sales and sellers at $12).

REFINERIES-China Sugars sold up i 192, but have eased down a bit, although at $100 shares can be placed. Luznos are completely neglected.

Union

placed at $490. Raubs have droppe sellers MINING SHARES.-Charbonnag,a can still be at 351, while Chinese Engineering and Mining, Company's shares are quiet at Thể. 154.

DOCKS, WHARVES, AND GODOWss J.-- Hongkong and Whampoa Dooks sold at $102,

but

100 has since been accepted; at that figare there are buyers, bat no sellers; Fenwicke, as ell as Now Amoy Docks, are unchanged. Shanghai Docks are also quister, and the cats is Tls. 72 ex the dividend of Tis. 5 per share paid on 31st ultimo; Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves have sellers at $7! on the interisa dividend of $3 per share paid on 31st altimo Shanghai and Hongkew Wharves have resided

LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong. kong Lauds sold at 98. A few Kowloon Lands sold at $37, but more are on offer. West Points are obtainable at $48 ex the interim dividend of 82 per share paid on 29th, ultimo, have sellers at Lust rate, owing to the collapse Hongkong Hotsis have fallen to 8110, and

of part of the eastern wing of the Hotel in Queon's Road Humphreys to have as buyers at Sio

Lauds ad- raced to Tls. 101.

COTTON MILLS.Shanghai quotes: Ewos T. 64, International Tls. 53, Lou Kang Mowa s. 95, and Soeychees Tis. 327. Hongkong Cottons are quiet at $11.

That the influence of the mind upon the body in great and little understood we bars had abundant evidence in the temporary anecorso and alleged wonderful cures of faith-bealers and charlatans nofter many names. A new work describes some of the psychological experiments of Prof. Elwer Gates, showing how potent into Tle 227. the effect upon the chemistry and tissue chang of the human system. Accurate observations upon the arm, when the thought of the owner was conceptested upon it, revealed an increase in size and in the blood cirenlation, and regular course of directed thinking for certain time daily gave a permanent develop ment of the limb. When a calm man breathed five minutes iots a cold tube, the volatile constituents of the breath condensed into a colorlear liquid. When the man was made angry a brownish sediment appeared as B result of the changed meats! condition, and in like manner the perspiration from the skin or exhalation from the lungs gave a gray sediment with sorrow, pink with remorse and 80

on. Injections of the brown gədi. ment of anger produced nervous irritability in mon and animals. Hate proved to be secotups nied with a greater expenditure of energy than any other passion and it precipitated several chemical products, of which a small portion was fatal to a guinea pig, while it was estimated that enough would be eliminated in an hour to kill scores of people. The bate ptomaines, it was concluded, represent the deadliest poison known to science,

The olastic macadam that seems to be proving so satisfactory na tried on Swiss roads is made [‚f tar and graval, the latter having a evarseness of one to two inole. The liquid is applied to the heated stones in a rotating drum until a considerable coating is formed. The material is thou piled under cover, and left for sight or ten wooks to undergo fermentation, the process filling the pores of the gravel and lessening the dust from it. A cubic yard of gravə requires only about fifty po ands of tar.

Berlin's motor street-sprinkler throws & spray over a width of 65 feet, moving faster than the horse watering-cart, whose variable pressure waters only 12 to 20 feet at most,

China Light and Powers are easier, and quoted 85 Hongkong Electrics are obtainable at $14. Groon Island Cements cold and have buyers at $10; Ise Company's shares are on offer at 8241, ex the interim dividend of $4 per share paid on lei ipatant. Ropes hare ayera at 822 United Asbestos ordinary shares have buyers at $103; Other stock ander this beading are

BUNDRY MANUFACTURING Companies→→→

MISCELLANE-Bornens sold at 90,30, closing with buyers at $91. Chins Pro- vidents changed hands and are offering at $8.90, Langkots have gone back to Tla. 305. Laun- dries have sellars at 87. Watsons sold and have buyers at 311. Other stocks under this heading unchanged.

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Blue light has been used since 1901 by Renard, of the niversity of Gecova, and other dentists, but its action in producing anaesthesia is not yet understood, An electric lamp of 16 caude-power, with a glass of in-NOTICE TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS tense blue, is the source of the light in

ractice. The lamp is placed five or six in. ches from the eyes of the patient, a screen of blue cloth being thrown over head and lamp, and insensibility without sleep results in two or three minutes. The condition lasts only about 30 seconds. This is sufficient time for |extracting a tooth, but careful watching for the critical moment is required, with prom ptness of action, There is

danger Cavalio has tried the method in about 40 casos, with very few failures, and Rsaard bas boon successful in 78 por cant of hit reported cases: All failures have been attributed to the patient's lack of the necessary confidence or insufcient firing of the attention on the light.

In a preserving process that bas come into use in England and is now being introduced into France, fruits are immersed for ten minates in cold water containing three per cent of a forty per seat solation of formaldehyde. Soft pulped fraits, like grapes, cherries, plums, etc. are

then dipped fire. minutos in puro water, but hard pulped fruit which are paral before{

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Benger's Food, prepared with fresh new milk, is all food.

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