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TO LET

TO LET.

THE HOOMB on the Art Foor of No. 34. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, (oppo- aite the General Post Office) The Rooms are light, spacious and well rostilaged. Very moderate rent. Immediata Potion.

Apply to...

YEE SANG FAT & CO

Bame addrosa. Hongkong, 28th January, 1907,

TO LET,'

NHOUSE fitted with Electris Light. Central Loonlity,

STILLINGFLETE" Peak Road, SIX. BOOKED HOUSE with Fine View at Harbour.

TO. 2, CHANCERY LANE. #ROOKED

***HARPERVILLE" Garden Boad, 81X ROOMED HOUSE fitted with Electrin Light aad full use of Tennis Court.

Apply to

PERCY SMITH & SETH,

Accountants & Auditora, &o.,

5, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 10th February, 1908. 333

TO LET.

:14

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

KOWLOON.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong, 1st February, 1908- 185

TO LETT

NO. 59, CAINE ROAD.

Nos. 27 and $1, SEYMOUR ROAD.

Apply to

BAM WANG CO., LTD.,

81, Queen's Rond Central,

Hongkong, 27th November, 1907,

TO LET.

19)

SIT ROOMED HOUSE at ELLIOT

A CRESCENT Robinson Bowl, Furnished

or Unfurnished.

Apply to

CASTRO,

F. X. D'ALMADA

Hongkong, 22nd January, 1908. 100

TO LET.

33, Queen's Road Central.

4 and 5-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon.

COMMODIOUS SHOP Easy Vahur Road” Central, Hongkong. Immediato possession Moderate rentals.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LD

Hongkong, 18th January, 1908.

Ho

TO-LET

OUSE, No 1, Wyndham Street, from

1st March sort,

Apply to H. M. H, NEMAZEE,

9, Pedders H{}}, Hongkong, 6th February, 1908.

TO LET.

TO. 5, MORRISON HILL.

No

320

One FOUR ROOMED HOUSE at Praya

East, near Esat Peint.

Apply

tö

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 21st October, 1907.

O'

TO LET

TO LEI

TO LET.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989.

THE Top Floor of No: 2, Wyndham Street anitabis for a Club or Boarding House.

lately vacated by the Hotel Baltimore, No. 7, FEDDER'S HILL. First Floor of Na 6, “Queen's - Road, Central, comprising Six Large Roem and Outhouses suitable for business Pes mises er Dwellings now occupied by FBD, BORNIKANN & CO.

Second Fleer of No. 8A, DES VEUX BOAD CENTRAL, above the Ofice of DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD."

Apply to

DAVID SASSOONTM & CO. LTD. Hongkong, 6th February, 108, -

TO LET.

96

Flow of Nault, DES VIEUX ROAD PPICES and ROOMS on the Ust and CENTRAL, (formerly occupied by Messrs BHAWAN, TOMs & Co.). MA

HOUSE, No. 11, SEYMOUR ROAD, newly paiated mox colour washed.

One FIVE-ROOMED BUNGALOW, TNROK No. 84, Mount Gough, Peak, Garden and Tonals. (From 1st April next).

Apply to

THE COMPRADORE DEPT., JARDINE, MATHmsor & Co, L.,

Connaught Road Central. Hongkong, 1st February, 1908.

209

TO LEE

BOM-16th February, FAIRVIEW"

No 1 ROBINSON ROAD, splendid situs tion, with fine view of barbour: Six Big Rooma. Apply to L. B

-Care of Daily Press" Offè. Hongkong, 5th February 1908.

312

TO LET. ARGE OFFICE ROOM on First Ficor LADES VEUX ROAD.

Apply to- FERD, BORNEMANN

No. 16, Des Your Road Centra, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1903.

TO LET

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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. PICTURE OF THE LUNGS IN ACTION—A DETUSORED KING OF MADICINES-NOTE PULVERIZATION-NATIONĚ. OVERTHROWN BY MALARIA A DARE NEBULA DUSTLESS ROAD CRUST-VANISHING METALS-OORAN WAVES FROM AIX PRESSURE.

SHARE REPORT.

Messrs Erith Georg & Co, say in their wookly share report dated 8th February 1908-A fair faquiry existed during the work under Toriew for various stocks, but only a moderate bhainers has been put through, owing to the relnotance of people to part with shares, except al higher rates. The sterling demand rate of demonstrations in medicine, one investigator and Tr. 74 to Tle. 741 for a three days' sight Living pictures have been utilized for various exobings on London cicuss so 18. 103d, while: having made blograph illustrations of different Private Hill. Barailver in London closan at

rates on Bhanghai are Tla. 74 for Bank T

gaits, while another has recorded complete 25-13/164, while Console-have advanced to details of various surgical processes, and a third. 87-3/160. The Bank of England rite öf has reproduced the convulsions of epilepticket rate of discount has advanced again, to 31 discount remains at 4 per cent, while the mar The latest fest is that of Dr. Kobler, of Wien pe cent. baden, who has shown in X-ray photographer the movements of both normal and disessed langs. The piofares were obtained by prolonged sions being combined, and about ality pictures

picture were taken for each reepiration, each of 20 or 22-phases of inspiration being projected two or three times successively. Some datails brought out have never before been observed.

BANK SHARES-Several lots of Hongkong. and Shanghai Bank Shares sold at $710 to $720 for old and 8705 to 8715 for now sharos,

Nationals are London 30ting 670 and 478_rapoo iraly. the market losing steady at the higher rates,

MARINE INSURANCE SHARES-Unione have advanced to sales and, bayers at $850, Other atocks under this heading are unchanged,

FICE INSURANCE SHASRS Bougkongs are steady at $335, while Obioas sold at $98, at which figure a few shares are on offer.

Gold formerly hold a leading place among SHIPPING SHARES-Hongkong, Canton and medicines, but even the much-vaunted chloride

Macso Steamboat, Shares changed owners at of gold cure for alcoholism nesins to be nowW

$294; Indo-Chinas have sellers at $85 (preferred and deferred combined); Shanghal and London. regarded as without therapeutic effect by most rates are unchanged. Shell Transports on be medical man. Dr. A. Maudet, however, records placed at 46. 6d., Loudon quofibu 478. 6d. that salts-of-gold-are-still-caed-in the regular aller Star Ferries sold at $25 for old and practice of a for French physicians. Chronic 8124 for now shares. In other stocke under

thie-heading there is no change to report. rheumatism is treated by Prof. Grasjet with

REFINERIES-Without basiness, but China chloride of gold and sodium, which in dilute Sugars have bayers at $109. solution is injected by Dr. Bus into tuberculons

MINING SHIRTS Charbonnages sold and tumors; for epilepsy Prof. Lemoine girer wanted at $500. · Hanhs reukin neglected bromide of gold, the-remedy of Prof. Robia, Company's shares have buyers in the north at at. $3. Chinese Engineering and Mining for eancer; and a hypodermic injection of The 15: chloride of gold solution is Dr. Calmette's our for riper bite,

By new French process, milk powder is produced by foreing the liquid under high pres- sare through a tube only 1/250 juch in diameter into a closed chamber heated to 167 deg. F. by

DCOKS, WHARYES, GODOWNE &o.--Hong- kong and Whampoa Docks sold at $98 and $97, But here sellers at the higher figure, Fenwick, Shanghai Docks have advanced in the north to as well as Now Amoy Dooks, are unchanged, bayare at The 80. Hongkong and Kowlo Wharves srequiet at $55 for old nud $53, for new shares, Shanghai and Hongkow Wharves have heen done in the north up to Tis 215, at which

AUCTION ROOMS. No. 2, Zetland Street. current of warm air. The milk expand to Agure, however, there are sellora Aimmediate possession

Nos. 2 and 4, "FAIRVIEW," Rostsson Roan. Kowloon. ".

"WOODBURY" GARDEN ROAD.

ROSENBATH," KOWLOOK, Apply to

LEIGH A ORANGE, 1, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 10th February, 1908.

TO LET,

TO LET.

94

vapor, the air current marries off the water, and the solids fall in powder.

That malurin, ■ well as political siden played an important part in the decadenes of Greese and Bowe is the view brought, ont ins new work by W. ; 8. Jones, of Cambridge, Eng, and supported by Major Reas and Dr. G G. Ellett. In the fourth century B, C, a great change in the morality and obaracter of the Greeks was. coincident with a change of the

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LANDS HOTELS AND BUILDINGS-Hang- kong Lands, are steady at $101, but Kowloon. Lands have dropped to sellors at $30. West Points are quiet at $49. Hongkong Hotels have buyers at $104, and Humphreys Estates at $10, Shaughai, Lande are quoted Tie, 107, businPRS.

COTTON MILLS-Unchanged and without

BUNDET MANUFACTURING COMPANIRS. --- Hongkong Electrics can be obtained at 8142. Green Tolsad Cements said in fairly large ther sellers. Other stocks under this heading. gasatition at 8112. which rate there are dar

unchanged.

fetched

MISCELLANEOUS-China-Borneon

104, and China Providents $91; there are buyers of the latter stook Langkats have jumped to buyers at The 450 Watkind have been done st 821. A. 6. Watsons sold at $104, but more shares are offering. Other stocke under this heading have not been dealt in and there is no

FIRST Class European Houses, furnished

or unfurnished, Lochiel Terrace and country from healthy to malarious one. Humphreys Avenue, Kowloon,

Physical vigor and intellectual power, were Apply to: TAM TEZ KONG,

Care of Hip Os Insurance, Exchange and greatly diminished before 300 B. C, while Lost Co., L3, 42, Bonham Strand, West. discutent and complaint breame general, and Hong, Is October, 1907,

in seeking a cause it is found that ruslaria has produced marked degeneration of race in modern times. The effect in Rome was somewhat diferent, brutal bloodthirstines being change to report. characteristic instead of moresoness and mental apathy. The writings of Hippocrates givə m clear account of disease among the Greeks, bat. evidence is lacking to show the influence of health apon the political condition of the Egyptians and other early races,

P Second Floor, Prince's Buildings

DER let Jansary, One OFFICE ROOM

Apply to

Juz

REUTER BROECKELMANN & CO Hongkong, 9th December, 1307.

TO LET

No

"O. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD.

Apply to...

COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT Nippon. Yusen Kaisha. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1505,

[£8.

TO LET.

FFICES in ALHXANDHA BUILDINGS,

Apply ---

99

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SECRETARY,

A. S. Watson & 'Co, Limited. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907.

FOL

FFICES on Top Floor No. Connaught

Road, facing the Cricket Ground,

No. 10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL Jsi foor.

"HATHERLEIGH," Condait Road.

A HOUSE in ÜLLITON GARDENS, Conduit Road

OFFICES in Your BUILDINGA

GODOWNS in PHAYA EAST, BLUB BUILDINGS and No. 18B; Die Tour Road next to the HONGKONG HOTEL.

FLATS in MORNTON TERRACE. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LT.... Hourkoag, 1st February, 1998:

TO LET,

36

**** MIGGESFORD (Farnished) – No-114,

Prix Contains 6 ROOMS.

No. 71, WYNDHAM STREET.....

GLENWOOD" Caine Roan, suitable for a Boarding bouse or Cinb. Containing 26 Rooms.

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fize Of and Dwelling Rooms

No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor, (over Caldbeck MacGregor): OFFICES in Queen's Road Central, BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES,

ROBINS N Road"

NETTLEWOOD"

55, ROBINSON ROAD Turulahed, Electric LightTM ud Faus and Good Tonais Lawn.

"GOOD CENTRAL GODOWN, No. 3, DUDDELL STREET,

LADBROKE, NO. CONDUIT Road, Rooms, Farnished or Unfurnished from 16th April, 1988. Large Servante Quarters and full sized Tesis Court.

2.

No. 3, DUDDELL STREET Shop and 1st Floor.

No. 6. DES VEUX VILLAS (PRAE). No. 57, PRAYA GRANDE, Maso

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandre Building Hongkong, 10th February, 1908-

TO LET.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

ODOWN No. 101, Praya East,

Apply to CHATER & MODY,

89

Victoria Building

· Hongkong, 17th January, 1908,

R

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL,

OOMS TO LET. Well and Comfortably Furuished, with separate Kitchens and Paths for each sat of Rooms Good_socom modation. Gas, Biotria and Water laid on. Bent vory molerate

Apply to

H, BUTTONJEE & SON,

5, D'Agullar Street, or

45, Elgin Road, Kowloɛm.

Hongkong; 15th January, 10.8.

TO LET AT CANTON.

NIGHT-ROOMED HOUSE

SHAMEEN.

Apply to-

A.B. 99, Cars of "Daily Prass" Ofic. Hongkong, 23rd January. 8. 251

TO LET.

on

A HACIENDA, East, Mount Kellet, The fault, nefurnished, from the middle or end of April next. For particulars apply to the undersigned.

U. H. GRACE, Care of Secretary's Office, Hongkong Club. Hongkong, 6th February, 1908

311

TO LET.

O. 5, ORMSBY TERRACE. Kowloon

Cheap Rental,

No. 3, PUNJAB BUILDINGS Kowloon.

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A "dead nebula is one of the most singaler of strange objecte moladia the sky. It appears in a rosent photograph by Prof, E. B. Darnard, and in a long, straggling mass in the constelle tion. Taurus, evidently hiding stars behind it. "The numerous stars around it suggest that the few within its limits, must be on this side of it. A small luminous portion, gradually fading out is shown, but it appears that the nebula must be a large one, and that most of it is dead or nouluhinnas, being in some places darker than starless parts of the sky.

Apokonin, the dust preventing compound, described by Consul Norton at Chemnitz and used to some extent on the maoad smised Streets of Leipsic, is a mixture of heavy residual oils from the distillation of coni-tar with bolling bydrocarbons. After heating in iron kettles, it is sprayed with a special sprinkler that forces the liquid into the dust under high pressur and the result is a compao: black costing over the roadway.

▲ redistribution of the chemical elements, specially of the metals has been going" on through the agency of man for some thousands of years, and H. M. Atkinson, British chemist, points out that the total affect must be con- siderable. The gold and other metals een centrated in small spots near the surface of the older rocks are being rapidly mined and put to use, the fav particles from their wear being carried down streams and eventually diffused. through the deposits at the months of the rivers Tin oxido, for example, is mined at a few places Ken.spread out pretty asiformity over the earth, and in the ratase of towns the waste tin is oxidised, carried away, by water, and on the sea-be tom the fine particles are so scattered as to be beyond future recovery by any process known. The effect may be modified to some extent by the concentration of metals io solution and other canser. As the emmmon receptrale of all

SPANISH PROCUBATION. Hongkotig, 18th October, 1907.

TO LET.

ODOWN No. 3, NEW PRAYA,

nedy Town. Apply to-

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

& AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st February, 1908.

TO LET

FROM 1ST MAY.

260

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD. Hongkong, 18th January, 1968.

221

PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE MR GOLLANDERE CLAREMONT

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waste, the sea must be slowly changing ite composition from industrial processes-notably from soluble clarides and other factory waste and from the calls of potash and lime that are taken from miner and used on the soil by farmars.

"Mavino seichen" or "vibrations of the see," ara polnitions usually baving periods of fifteen localities, and her coeur ou coasts in addition to twenty minutes, though varying in diferent to the waves of short duration due to wind dad those caused by the regular ebb and w of the tide. They have brought out various theoris A recent study has been made by Prof. Giovanni Platania at Catania, Sici, and he concludes that the principal osuse. is air waves or Fariations of almispheric pressure.

Domestication of the elephante soems to be making good progress in the Congo. Of the twenty-five young elephants st. Api, nineteen are kept at work eight mouth of the year, and turned out in the forest during the rainy ason, but do not join the wild elephants. They return to wo willingly.

DISTRESS IN INDIA.

140,000 PzOP ON BELIEF, The Secretary of State for India has received the following telegram from the Governor- General, dated January 6, 1909-

Moderate rain fell during week in part of Madras Presidency, slight rain in Burmos Eastern Bengal and Assam, Hambay, mu Hyderabad. Elsewhere week was rainlos.

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LATEST PLANTS and APPLI AŃCES to Endertaka BUILDING or -REPAIBING SHIPS, ENGINES, and BOILERS; And Biso ELECTRICAL WORK

FOR 1918. Shows the dates of departure of the Mails to Europe and America, and the fates of their capected arrival at their destinations, as well as always kept on band. United

The dates of return Mails.

Nombers on state relief are now: Provinces, relief works, 68:404; gratuitons 32.781; gratuitons relief, 1,587. relief, 32,928; Central India, relief works,

No marked increase of orime or wandering has yet appeared in United Provinces, and measures taken to meet situation. are adequaté.

Bengal report is somewhat more hopeful than before though rain is wanted bidly, and soareity is apprehended in a number of distriste in Orima Numbera on test works are still insignificant, bat over 3,000 persone, mostly women and children, are in receipt of test works in Panch Makale district of Bombay, gratuitous relief, 574 parsons are employed ou

Total number of parsons in receipt of State relief in the whole of India is now 110,090.

Ares sown with wheat in British India is estimated to be 34 per cent. less than last year. In the Projeb and United Provincas deereesa is 42 and 85 per cent, respectively. There is also a depresse of 37 per cent. in aros sown with ollaseds. Prices contions to show a tefidency foʻrise..

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