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INTIMATIONS

S. MOUTRIE

& CO.LTD.

NEW SEASON'S MODELS

JUST ARRIVED

BABY GRANDS

"AND

COTTAGE PIANOS

BY

BLUTHNER, RUD.

IBACH.

RACHELS, PLEYEL,

CHAPPELL AND ROSENKRANZ &C.

INSPECTION INVITED:

SOLE AGENTS:

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD,

York Building, Chatar Road,

137-2

Hongkong, 18th November, 1997,

THORNE'S

PER CASE

OLD VAT

$15

THIS VAT WAS STANTED BY THE LATE ROBERT TORNE OF GREENOCK AND HAS BEEN SOLDAS No1 SINCE 1951

SCOTCH WHISKY.

SOLE AGENTS IN

-308

TO LET

TO LET,

FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd

OFFICES OF NO. 11, DES VEUX ROAD

CENTRAL, (formerly coupled by Mosers. SHSWAN, TOMES & Co.)

Apply to

THE COMPRADORE DEPT., JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD.,

Connaught Road Central.

299 Hongkong, 25th February, 1908.

TO LET,

LENWOOD" CAINE ROAD, suitable

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, MONDAY, APRIL 20TH, 1988.

| SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

give out red and yellow rays but are freer from ultra-violet radiations than the fron or titanium

ATOS.

REVIEAND WRITING-BUST FROM THE SUN——

DAILY APPEARANCE ÖF. MICROBNI—STEIX- Gas poisoning from gas engines has become ING THE DIST BY CHART-SAFETY UNDER 20 common that German authorities urge that PREJAVBYWJRMO" AV TEWE-PLANTERS Aylinders of oxygen be kept near, and that MINE-TESTING -LAMP -- IMPROVING THE engineers be taught to apply inhalations to ELECTRIC ABO—935 ARGINE FIRST AID.. resuscitate victitas.

"G for a Bearding house or clab, Consopy he writes normally, "bat, on being Brked,

(taining 26 Roorns.

No. 1, COLLEGE GARDENS, Furnished. Fox 5 or 6 Months cheap rants).

OFFICES in Bank Buildings, Top Floor. From 1st July, 1908.

No. 8, BELILIOS TERRACE, 1st Row Cornor House.

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Officer and Dwolling Rooms

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

No. 3, DUDDELL STREET Shop, No. 2. DES VEUX VILLAS (PAE). No. 57, PRAYA GRANDE, Masas.

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. 3rd Floor, Alexandra Building-

89 Hongkong, 13th April, 1908.

loon.

TO LET.

IRST Class European Houses, Lochiel Terrace and Humphreys Avenue, Kow- Apply to

TAM TSZ KONG, Care of Hip On Insurance, Exchange and Loan Co., Ld., 42, Bonham Strand, West.

04. Honkong, 1st October, 1907.

TO LET.

SHARE REPORT.

Moss Erich Georg & Co. say in their weekly share report dated Hongkong, 18 h April, 1908,

A moderate general business has been trans- acted during the week under review, and several stocks have improved a little in value. The sterling demand rate of oxchange on London

In the curious case recorded by Dr. Vangban Pendred, of Coventry, Eng, a bright lad of six, who has been making rapid progress with bis pen and is proud of his success, writes with equal facility fornard or backward, When peting by himself, he begins at the right hand side of the paper and writes to the left. From

slores at 18, 10-9/1, while relus on Shanghai declares that the "mirror writing" there Tis. 741 for a Bank T/T and Tls. 744 for

bres days sight. Private Draft, the rate in corroot form. Such writing seems to be legs Shanghai on this for a three days' sight Private rare than is supposed. Among several hundred Bill being wired 35 The 741 Barilger in persons in good health a medical investigator Loader is quoted 25-5/ 6d, and Consola £373. soma. years ago found more than fire per-cant. The Bank of England rate of discount remains to whom mirror-writing was natural, but it at 3 per cent, but the private market rate of

discount has advanced again to 24 per ount, appeared that these persons were either left- handed or temporarily using the left band. In

BANK SHARES-Small parcals of Hongkong and Shanghai chungod hands at $600 and 36025, a mirror the left-hand reversed writing of right-the market closing with further sellers at 8692 hauded persons showed the usual characteristics the London quotation is £78, 10s, Od. Nationals

have buyers at $51.

MARINE INSURANCE SHARES-Unions sold of hand-writing. The peculiarity in especially common among expert peamen, and soome toia small Ints at $540 ani $9421, and more sliares be still more frequent in nervous and cerebral are on the market, Yaugts-s have advanced and are wanted in the North at the equivalent disease. An attempt was made to explain it by of the local rate of $160 for pid and $145 for the bilateral notion of the brain. The right new shares, Other stocks nader this heading hand is normally guided by the left cerebral ars unchanged. cortex, and it was shown that if this insteall of the right cerebral cortex should primarily con trol the left hand, that hand would write back- wards.

The pazzling phenomena of the earth's atmo phere-especially those of the aurora are found by Svaate Arrhenius to be best explained as effects of solar dust. The influx of such dust would be greatest when the sun is must sotive, and it is then that aurora and magnetic storms attributed to the dust when electrifed- are most numerous, and clouds also are especially abundant. Tapiter shares in the 4 and 5-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon.

dust, becoming lighter in buo in sudspot COMMODIOUS SHOP in Des Voeux Roadmaxima, owing to incrased cloudiness. Central, Hongkong. Immediato possessión Moderate rentals.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., "LD.”

840 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1908.

PA

TO LET.

DARKSIDE, Kowloon, 7 Booms.

Immedialo Possession. Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

& AGENCY CO. LD.

718 Hongkong, 15th April, 1908.

TO LET.

The air is found by Prof. Miquel of Mont. souris to contain most microbes at nine in the morning and Dine in the evening; fewest at three in the morning and thres in the

Afternoon.

FREINSURANCESBAGPS-Hongkonge sold at $3071, and: Chians at $80, and more shares are wanted.

EPING SHARES.-A few, Hongkong, Canton and Macar Steamboat-shares add at. 3, the market closing with ellers at $294. Indo Chions are nominat at 562 (833 for preferences and $24 for deferred shares); the Shanghai rate is Tla, 4 buyers, while London quotes E4, 5, 08, and £2.1. Od, respectively. China and Manilas sold at $15 and 316, and can be played at the higher rats. Douglass ara quiet bat steals at 31). Star Ferriss sold at $31 and $313 for old shares and at $164 and $15 for the new issue. Shell Transports bava been fixed at 451, London quoting 465 64, Union Waterboats can be sold at $11,

REFINERIES-China Sagara changed hands at patas ruling from $130 to $137, and there are further barers at the higher figure. Luzons are unchanged.

MISING SHAREE-Chatboaongee bave buyers a $510, nais sold at $8 to $81, closing steady at 8 Chicasa Engineering sul Mining Company's shares are up to Tis. 16 bayers.

DOCKS, WHARVES, GODWNS, &c.-Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Company's als res The mechanical diet indiostor of Pref. Ir-old at $103, $104 and 103, closing with bayers ing Fisher, of Yale Univerity, is designed to at $:03, and a few sellers at $101. Geo. Fea- wicks are neglaatad at $13. New Amoy Docks show automatically the proteid. fat and arboby-ean ba placed at 593 ex the dividend of 50 cents drate in any dietary, and it not only indicatos the proportions but also points out the easiest way to bring the ration up to a given standard. The machine consists of an iron upright nine inches high, from which is suspended a basket holding a card printed with a right-angled triangle as a "food map. Each individual' food has its own location. The "latitude"

of

per abare paid on 13th instant. Shanghai Docks contions in demand st. The 80, Fair quantities of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves ani mora shares are obtainable at the bigher. have been taken of the market a1$52 and 8524, Bgure, Shanghai and Honkow Wharren have wallers in the North at 'l'ix, 225.

HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA, 9. 4, BARROW TERRACE, Kowloon, any food represents in oslarien the feud and S6. Weet Points have sellers at 849, and

A. S. WATSON & CO, LTD.

As Supplied to the House of Commɔna.

TO JE

TO LET.

HAMBERS in No. 2, WYNDHAM

STREET; Moderate Rent.

One ROOM with Tarandab and Smell Room on the Secoud-foor of No 8, Dor. Vox Road Central, above our Office, Suitable for business premises or dwellings..

First Floor of No. 6, Queen's Rial, Rooms Central, camprising Six Large and Oathouses suitable for business Pra. now occupied by

mides or

Dwellings,

FEED, BORNÉMANN,

Apply to--

DAVID SASSOON & Co. LeD. Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.

TO LET.

96

FFICES on Top Floor No. 2, Conaught

Route facing the Cricket Ground 'HOUSES in Wong Nai Chong Road, No. 10, DES VEUX ROAD ÜENTRALİ, 1st floor..

HATHERLEIGH" Conduit Road.

BLUE

OFFICES in You BUILDING. GODOWNS in PRAYA FAST, BUILDINGS and No. 16, Des Voux Road

next to the HONGKONG HOTEL. ..

FLATS in MOLETON TEEBACK.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVES1- MENT & AGENCY CO., KEY Honakour, 1st April 1968

Cheap Reutul.' Apply to

SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1908.

TO LET.

656

602

IMMEDIATE Possession. ODOWN at Davies Street, Kennedy Fewu, lately coupled by the STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

Apply—:/

CHATER & MODY: Hongkong, 24th March, 1908.

TO LET. QUSE in KENNEDY ROAD, Healthy FOUE ROOMED HOUSE in Morrison Hill Gap Road, Suitable for Married Couple with Small Family, Beats low.

H

EUROPEAN FLATS in "WILD DELL BUILDINGS" Rents low.

No. 5. WILD DELL BUILDINGS" Large and Airy Godowa within easy access of the water front.

Apply to

26

TO LET

64

Side of the

DOUGLAS

WHARE

ITHER

Terms on Application to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CON

General Managers

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD.

Hongkong. 81st March, 1908,

TO LET.

* 637:

THE ROOMS on the first floor of No. 34. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, oppo- site the General Post Office) The Rooms are light, spacious and well ventilated. Very moderate rout. Immediate Possession,

Apply to

YEE SANG FAT & CO

Same address, Hongkong, 23th January, 1907,

TO LET

FRON 1ST MAY.

270

COWLOON MARINE LOT 48, Tarmati, Area 85,200 square feet and with 255

fect Sea Frontage. Especially suited for Storage

of Coal, Timbar, ki.

Apply to

PERCY SMITH & SETH, Acountants & Auditors, &c., 5, Queen's Road Central.

700 Hongkong, 14th April, 1908,

LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS-Hong- keng Louds can he placed to a small extent at $99. Kowloon Leads are bien done at $2 Hongkong Hotels at $96 Humphreys Estata changed owners at S: 0 and 810 d are wanted at $10. Shanghai Lands are quoted Tls. 114.

COTTON MILLS.-Ewos bave advanced to Tis, 56; other Shanghai Mills are probunged. Hongkong Cottone sold and are in demand at $30.

value of its protaid; the "longitude," food value in fat; and distance from the by polkenuse, valve ia carbohydrate. Serring each food in portions of 100 calories of food value, or some mafliple, a weighted pin for each portion is placed on the map. The weights represent the food value of the ration, their positions show the percentages of proteid, fat and carbohydrat, and when the basket is allowed to swing freely a pointer indicates on the map the center of gravity of the pine. The map is so gauged that a properly balanced ration will bring the center of gravity within a charted "normal rectangle In a trial of fire months, nine students were guided largely by appetite, and by noting that S1, and farther shares are wanted at $165; indications of the map were able easily to vary the diot so as to reduce the proteid to a standar1

not as desirable.

Investigating the effect of compressed air on health, two British engineers have shown that a pressure of 92 pounds per aquare-insh→ more than six atmospheres may be endured without unpleasant resalts. The pressure mast b taken off at a uniform rate, however, at last twenty minutes being allowed for each. fifteen piands of reduction, and oapillary circulation in the body must be kept up by muscular exercise daring compression: Slight NE FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE st Prays temporary neuralgic pain in the arms was the

East, near East Point. Apply to-

JARDINE. MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1998.

TO LET.

93

TO LET. Flagony, big Bobinson Road AIRVIEW," No. 1, Robinson Road,

liarbour,

Apply to

Messrs. J. ULLMANN & Co.,

34, Queen's Road. 382 Hongkong, 1st April, 1908. TO LET.

03. 27, 81 and 33; SEYMOUR ROAD. Apply to-

SAM WANG CO., LTD..

81, Queen's Road Central 190 Hongkong, 27th November, 1907.. -

TO LET.

FFICES in Alexandra BUILDINGS.

Apply

SECRETARY,

A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907.

N

221

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD. Hongkong, 19th January, 1908.

TO LET

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRAČE AROWLOON

No. 3, CANTON VILLAS."

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

gkong, Ist April, 1908.

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LO.

TO LET.

(91

ro. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD.

Apply to

COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1905,

+

TO LET

188

only ill effect of the great pressure.

That earthworms as well as squares may aid. the forester is the novel suggestion of an America naturalist. Dry maple-seada are drawn into worm barrows, where they sprout and it is believed that some of them must survive in favourably moist sassons,

The new miners' lamp of Sauta and Spelman, of Brussels, is designed to give warning of danger, and is based on the principle that a fisme like that of benzine remaine constant in size and brightness under constant conditions- but is increased by such a gas na fira-d my and reduced by carbonic acid. The lamp has a protective casing of wire-gauss provided with external cooling riba. It is surmounted by a refrantory chimney, through the opposita siles of which pass the elements of a therm pile, and any variation cf current is shown by s galvanometer in connection with these elements. If the flame is made larger and hotty the presence of fire-damp. the thermo elments are affected, an increase of current intensity being indicated by the galvauomoter needle, Carbonic acid gas, reducing the inne the is similarly signaled by a reduction on galvanometer scale, and a recording epparatus congested with the galvanometer may be made to keep a record of the varying editions in different parts of the mines workings.

The electric are from the incandescence of carbon electrodes converts into Bght only about one per cent of the energy, and the so-called "faming aro is an attempt to gain efficiency by adding to the carbou substances that produce luminous fame, Reporting the latest resulte Prof A Blondel, the French electrician, states that galls of the calcium group have proven suitable materials. The pare chemicals may be used for electrodes or employed in a homogeneem mixture with carbon, but electrodes of carbon with a cors of the chemicals bara A lamp with such electrodes, giving a powerful light, has much greater efficiency than any other. The quality of the light may be varied, but the elements of the calciam group are best-to-um, ds.they not only

LARGE OFFICE VOUX ROAD Four advantages.

of

16, DES

FERD. BORNEMANN. No. 16, Des Voeux Road Central Bongkong, 23rd January, 1909,

Apply to

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SUNDRY MANUFACTURING. COMPANIER- Allsubres, are quite nowital and difficult to quote, Hongkong Milling shares are quite nominal; as a result of the natimely death of the general manager. Mr. Renute, and the. difficult position in which the big oneiro, at Junk By now placed, milling opera ions hare heen temporarily suspended Chins Light and Powers changed hands and are wanted at $6. Hongkong Electrics have been done. Dairy Farmsa fetched $19 and have further buyers. Fair quantities of Green Island Cement shares changed hands at $11 to $11:39 the market closing steady at $114. Iem have been. and done at $295, Ropes o11 21 $25 and $20 have buyers at lalter figure. O her stocks under this heading have not been dealt in.

MISCELLANEOUS-China Providents sold at

38 and 89; there are sellere at 9; bat bayers at $81, Chin Boruecs have sales and sellers at $11. Pask Tramway shares sold and bare buyers at $13 for the old, and at 32 for the new issue. Langkats have improved to Ta-460.- A. S. Watspan fetched $1. In other stocks under this bading nothing has been done and rates are unchanged.

1910-4-2

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