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HONGKONG

A. D. C.

COME DOWN TO DEVONSHIRE.”

THREE HOURS OF MERKIMENT,

You DO MAKE OF LAUGH!

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COUNTRY

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DECEMBER 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 1

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Open 25th November, at 10 Ä..

Hongkong. 24th November, 1909.

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PREMIUM BONDS

WE are the latest Dealers in the world in theen attractive decai

WHAT ARE THESE BONDS?

They are high-class and absolutely bute securités, payable in beares, lesand -iba various Goyeramegre and Municipalities of Europe; they ate redeem the

periodical drawings, olther with Cash Premiuma varying from 2440 to R10,000) for, at tiid very, legat, at), their ful nominal value,

EABY PAYMENTS AND WEM We not these Banda singly or in combinations of the most adrantigoDUS

payable by dentenjent

High, Monthly fustaimenes ranging from 15%, in 180.

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THE

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

SOLE AGENTS:

TO BE OBTAINED EVERYWHERE,

DRINK

'ASAHI” & “SAPPORO

As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS, AND HOUSE OF COMMONS,

THORNE'S

PER OASĂ

OLD VAT

$15

KEIN VAT WAS STARTED BY THE LATE ROBERT THORNG

BURLENDS AND HAS BEEN BOLD AS N'E SINCE JAMI.

SCOTCH WHISKY.

704

SOLE AGENTS IN HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA. A. S. WATSON & CO.LTD.

SANG MOW.

RATTAN AND GRASS FURNITURE MAKER.

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MARTIN'S

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THE HONGKONG DAILY, PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 185, 1900,

FOD SOIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

YATSEY STORKS or ERESIDENT LAPICE but it upon the corporations themesolve,

From FİLMOTRIO SPARKS IN GANORD-A NEW President of the United States sontributed fueritable.

a blographical sketch of the now | nexion with the new fax world in many cases be DICTMENT-DOCKS FLOATED ON BAND to a London contemporary we extract the TEKTELE OF TO-MOBBOW-MUMMY ATEMENTS following interesting information: —STRENUOUS EVOLUTION SQUEEZING. THE

pasially since an increasë in.focal rates in-con-- BRANDY

4 Prepih Bamad) for all ferkaklarıstan, ThomaŠTANK, COS Ladis kaip a Larsçot Martina Fini li tin kone, so that on the DO N sign of inj Truggikkelig af, the Speedini (abinety dega. Jangi, lak

1. Those wom um skam es menjal

MASTER Cusic, SOUTHAMPTON, SKOLAND.

MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS,

NAGASAKI

CODE WORD: "DOCK,” A.1, A.B.C., and Engineering Code Used NEW DOCK NOW OPEN. DOCK No. 3.

Exte Length...........

722 feet:

714

Length on Blocks

M

Width of Entrance on Top

Width of Entrance on Bottom Water on Blooks at Spring Tide

DOCK No. 1.

961 13 884 11 34,

Extreme Length...

Length on Blocks

523 feet. 613

Wich of Entrance on Top

Widl of Entrance on Bottom

Wajer on Blocks, at Spring Tids

DOCK No. 2

Extreme Length... Length on Blocks

Width of Butrunce en Top

371 foot.

350

66

63

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GAS PIPER-SURFAOR SPRINGS.

Back in the nineties, when the young lawyor

MURDERER CREMATED.

REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION AT THE FUNERAL PYRE.

roll, at Allpors, to the burning ghat at Kallghat

Glossin, the informar, was removed from the The body of Kanal Lal Dutt, the murderer of

followed by a large crowd of mourners number ing over a thousand, about half of whom were

Women,

JAND

SHERRY.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

notify our Customers

W Public penerally that we hire adopted

New Labels bearing our Trade Mark for a BRANDIES and SHERRIE

| labels, will both into ise as from the lar decessed that it was past 12.30 bufore the sacred A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.,

Bo eager wore the people to see the face of the DECEMBER Next.- torah was applied to the pyre. The body was and-vae cremated entirely in ghea and sandal profusely garlanded with flowers before removal,

had just been appointed United States cirquit Fudge at Cincinnati, there cama a devastating. "Falgaration" is the name, proposed for the The court-room was filled with men, who had railway strike. The case game into Court worked out by Dr. De Resting-Hart, cs, the judge should never foave the court method of dealing with cancer that has ten worn that should the judgment go against the Mack of results with X rays and alive. He faced them calmly, serenely, and other light radiations decided him to try high with a smile and announced his decision, which meant prison for one of the leaders. frequency electric currents of very high tension, and the spark rays generated proved native in shaken tones, said, "Who all leave this Then he turned to the Court, and, in un destroying the tumor map and stimulating the room I want you to understand that, so long a surrounding tissues to absorb the dead tissue states these trains will be run And with there is a man left in the army of the United and to form firm sour. Qaita weak currents unruffled demeanor the judge left the bonch.

· are used; with a tension na high no 250,000 to This in the had ef man the Americans haved, a method of cremation adopted only in the 300,000 volte, as much of the tumor is removed by cutting as practicable, and the sparks are applied where malignant tissue seems to be left the application lasting about 45 minutes. The process being painful, anaesthetics of non- Inflammable kind-are necessary. Some medics exports who have Investigated report that this method is a road advance, several apparent cares

chosen for their new ruler. To bim may be applied Horace's description of the "Justuin et tenacem propositi virum."

The man of stern and righteous, will

and revered persons. A funeral oration was case of the rich, well-to-do or highly respected delivered over the body by his undle which was radeived with continued shouts of Kanal Lal ka jal

of cancer having resulted, while undoubted son of the great Middla West, the backbone of and waenlained to him that the

palliative and temporary effects have been

sollieved.

The bedbug has been found by two late in 1679. Young Tit was sent to Yale, and then off ita fruil Leams of mortality joy I

No rabble clamorous for the wrong. Early on the morning precoding kis exeon- Not Jove's right hand, whose frown may kill, tionsbouda kells were blown from funumerable Caa zako the strongth that makes him houses in Calautta and metropolitan suburbs. President Taft became a Prvaldontiat possibi- that the booming sound heralded the advent of It was said in one of the vernacular journals lity fifty-ous years ago at Cincinnati, He is a Kanal's)

spassing away from this world of cares

and of tears and trencheria Grant's Attorney General; and Secretary for was the brightest day, so far as Kanai Lai batt the States. His father, Alphonse Taft, w It was a War. The family came over from England in was concerned. His soul was to shake studied law his father's office.

The future

eternal tigators to be the most dangerous of all blood President faced the realities of life early. At

1 bliss of immortal abode where sorrows are pij avail sucking insects in spreading disesse or, at any 20 he was studying low, and doing court report rate, in disseminating plague. In its body theng for, his brother's newspaper at a salary of germs live and multiply, retaining virulence for 245. a week. Of course he did his work, wall,

and many days, while the bedbug itself seems to equally of course there soon camo promotion: temple, and put it. round the nack of the

for another paper scoured his services at £5

suffer no inconvenience,

The two concrete drydocks at Kiel rest on a deep stratung of fine sand, and it is found that though measuring ontaids about 600 by 215 by 60 feet, with 18-foot bottom and walls they are forced down and up with filling and empty. ing. The movements are small, though the bottoms bond 0.79 inch, the entire struc- tures settling 0.2 luck' on löâling.

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week.

There followed graduation as a law student and then admission to the Bar. At that time there was in Cincinnati a blackmailing paper

by tucked Alphonse Taft when running for the Governorship of Ohio. The blackmailing editor had a bodyguard of roughs. Hit the athletis young giant from Yale calmly marched down to tremendous, thrashing. the office of the poper and gave the editor a If ever this cours again, remember this is only a start," said young Taft. It did not occur again.

A future Industry of much importance is President Taft is a big man physically as well foreseen by E. Lomnire, a French writer, in the as mentally and of course his three hundred ase of spau-glass. The spinning of glass into pounde weight has been the excuse for many threads was known to the ancient Egyptians, jest. Billy Taft is the politest of men, said a Senator, "Isaw him get up in a stre

street who attracted some attention when glass making car and offer his seat to thres ladies. Once he was taken up at Venice, and by the end of the soát s telogram to

Foot, telling of what he had eighteenth century the Frend and Bohemian

alorty-mile ride in the glass-workers ware producing threads about three Secretary but how is the horse. All these

Philippines

wired back the paris long having sufficient flexibility for and other stories may be taken as the measure braiding and making lace. Modern glass of the affaction which the people bear towards spinning was developed by J. de Brunfout in their new President. Did they love him less, the middle of the last century. He made longer, then would be faw jokes, about him. As it is, to quote President Roosevelt, "He will be on- more fexible and stronger threads, which were phatically a President of the plain people." made into embroidery and paasomanterie, and by Dubs and Bonnel were woven into cloth. They are now made into algrattis and imitation ostrick feathers. Do Brunfäht's art has been in

large part lost, but at the present time a silk-like glass-wool is formed into tissues for the wear of the gouty and rheumistiö, the waste being utilised for packing steam-pipes, and in Germany the longer. Ebers are made fato a braid that serves not only for non-burning lamp-wioks but also for hest and electric insulation. Cheap and satisfactory threads for weaving can doubtless be produced when required. The cloth will have unique advantages for clothing and other parposes, as it will be incombustible a non-con, inctor of heat, proof against acids, and a perfect insulator against electricity.

THE BOON OF ARTIFICIAL COLD.

Mr. J. De Loverdo contributes to the World's Work a paper on Miracles of Cold, by which he means the wonders wrought by refrigeration. To treats of the cold storage for meat the revolutionising of the batter trade, the trans- portation of tropical fruits for rich and poor. Perhaps one of the most unexpected results in effectiva that coldhouse has become an

is to the hothouse in the supply of

Bowers.

Bir at cold sorespon

was passing be

While the by Dal BAR IMPARA the temple of Kalighas, an old, Brahmin approached with garland of flowers from tha deceased. Prayers were specially offered at the temple in order that Kayai's soul might and overlasting peace in heaven. The scene at the baring, ghat,badlos all description.

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

"BEN". LINE, OF STEAMEES. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

5.B. "BENMOHR,” FROM LEITH, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRATTS.

CONSIGNEES of Cargoarohereby informed Parthat? mit Goods are being landed at their hazardous risk to the

and for extra haxardonă: Cholowns of the Hongkong and Roloch Wharf and Godown Company

Culos, will be admitted after the Goods Ltd, whence and/or from the wharvos delivery

boburned,o are left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 2nd Dea, will be subject

No

to rent,

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the lik Dep, or they will not be recognised,

All brakan, chafed, and damaged Goods to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

xamined on the 2nd Deo, at II 4.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agente Hongkong, 26th November, If08. 1010

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER.

THE F. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

OCEANA,"

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

ALPINE FLOWERS ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED,

The horticulturist now retards the blooming of floware, as Nature does in the northern

applied wholesale, în

in England especially and in Germany and Holland, soon gave birth to's new horticultural

method proceeding W one of

one of the simplest. In 1 February Hớigrong and March spireas, azaleas, Chinese plum tufts of dhutzin, ahops of lily of the valley, lilie

The

STRAITS.

-Consigna of Cargo by the above-named resel are hereby informed that their goods are baing lydef and played az ruMUR BISK in the and Kowloon Winez and Godoy'r tres Company

Godorus at Kowloon, where sh

Appendicitis in a new disease in name only, and it has been traced back to ancient Egypt by and roses are torn front the ground and placed markmont will be sorted add minele by mark. the explorations of Capt. H. G. Lyons in 57 in a cold, dark chamber, and kept at an even Gozdar lauded.

bed and delivery can be obished book as the cemeteries of the Nile Voller just south of the temperature of 25 deg. or 26 deg. C. During Fail tessel brings on Cargo:-- Pillars of Konosse. Female abdominal organs the whole summer this alight frost prolongs from one grave were so well preserved that this they are re-awakened from their slumbers in a their sleep. At the approach of the early fronta disease could be recognized. Another body well-warned greenhouse, and, in November and showed typical lesions of gout, both forearms of December, burst into resplendent nud vigorous

blossoms. young woman had been broken and were

From London, &c., ex a.a." Mongolia." From Persisa Golf ex B. I, 8. N mad

B. & P. 8. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional goods will be landed hero unless instructions are given to the nontrary withir.

bandaged, with splints, and numerous bonesance the same way the cold prolongs the hours

ting his carnations Goods not put by the 2nd Dad, str.

I treatment.

nd lilies,

in bad during will be subject to rout showing reunited fractures gave evidenco of

weeks. After month or forty days of

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in nucli surgical skill. A London mussian will prevention these flowers, when out and exposed why cases Batey er

they just soquire from these gravei a valuable collection to the air, last almost as long as

Damaged

the left in the packages must be left in the Go fillustrating early disease and accidents and the be picked. The little edelweiss will soon lose downs for examination by the Consignees and its prestige, when, following the example of the

the Company a representatives at an appoin Daafsir Hortionltarist, our gardens repre hour. Alf Glades, maất hồ presented within the delicate flora of the glaciers by freezing ton days of tas-steamer's arrival here, after Artificially under a thin layer, the soil which which date they cannot be recognised bear them

Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

E. A HEWTTI,4

Superintendent. Hongkong, 28th Novamber, 1909.

The surface of the earth is undergoing steady transformation, largely through the agency of man, but perhaps nowhere is the plant and HOW COLD INCREASES FURNACE HRÁT, animal life of the region being more rapidly artificial cold increases the heat of the blast One of the paradoxes of this industry is that supplanted than in New Zealand The native furious. The farmers work far better in Polynesian race, crowded by Europeans, is be-winter than in summer. The reason is that the coming extinct. Many of the imported animals vapour contained in the admands Air is in jurions run wild and multiply rapidly at the expense of the native species, even the streams being filled with European and American trout, which grow to great size. Introduced plants thrive quite as remarkably. New forests are being created designedly because the estive tress, though yielding excellent timber, grow very slowly; and already 11,000,000 larohes, oals, spruces, Dongtas fire and encalypts have been planted, while seedlings from them are being continually added.

to the working of the furnace Now the Carnegie stoel furaso o maline solution which reduces the air several degrees below freasing point, and so eliminates fivé-aiztku of the vapours contained in the air. A much purer FROM and less sulphurous liquid metal is thus obtained.

GERMAN AND PRUSSIAN FINANCES.

the

amount of £25,000,000

TH

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWEẸP,

LONDON, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.

| AHLE Company's Stensship The announcement in the Speech from the

“BINGO MARU," Throne to the Prussian Dist on the 20th altaying arrived: from the above. Ports, Con- that fresh revenue to the amount of £10,000,000 sognacs of Cargo are hereby informed that their a year is required has come, the Berlin corres-Goode, are being landed and placed at their pondent of the Times says, as an unpleasant is in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and A now argument in favour of electric lighting surprise to the Bourser and to the public in Godown Company Godown at Kowloon, where is found in the reports of the London gas general, especially to the business sections of osch consignment will be surted out marks by

community. For the present, it is true, companies. In six months 110,000,000 onbie only about one quarter of this sum is to be raisedrs and delivery can be obtained as soon

are landed Opthout Goods will be carried on unlses feet of gas was lost and could not be accounted by means of fresh taxation; in conjunction for, and it seems that most of this must have remands of the German instructions" are given to the contrary, before

for additional revenus

to No

-TO-DAY¿ disappeared through Kofnal leakage. Company the amou

year, the officinis suggest an explanation in the increased for the Prussian taxpayer is anything but ambject to rent, has been effected

prospect

Goods not scared by the 3rd Dec, will le

weight and spood of vehicles using the streets, reassuring,

NoFire The increases in the income and capital tares The added pressure and especially the increased

Damaged packages, mast be left in were not unarpooted, and had been discounted the Godown for examination by the Con- vibration bring now underground strains, and beforehand, but the proposed tax on the trading signees and All Claims must be presented the Co's rep asentatives at An must undoubtedly, affect pipes carrying gas. prolite of companies and corporations is being appointed hour. Al the stesmarr's strival bere, Serious possible consequences are painted ont argued that, although the Prussian Government after which date they cannot be recognised. Ten per cent of the gas is cárbón monoxide,

denies that the new import is intended to tax No claims will be admitted after the goode powerful poison, and the scoundation in a

dividende, the proposal will in practice, be found

have left the Godowns. stagnant atmosphere my have much to do with materially to affect the basis upon which profits

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA London's headaches, diszives, etc.

are now distributed among the shareholders.

Hongkong, 28th November. 1908. Furthermore, it is feared that, although the Government

£1,100,000, which has hitherto been levied upon corporate income-tax payers, the new

Summer springs of woods and hillsido seem

discussed with considerable concorn.

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to be less ideal drinking plasss than they have the sun of bly desire to make gold cory. NOTICE TO KUWLOON RESIDENTS

With of Entrance on Bottoni, Water on Block-at Spring Tidė

PATENT SLIP. Suitable for vessels up to 1,000. THE WORKS are well equipped with LATEST PLANTS 24 APPLI- CHAIRS, TABLES, SETTEES & ANCES to undertake BUILDING

REPAIRING SHIPS, ENGINES, and BOLLERS: umal also ELECTRICAL MATTINGS WORK.

A LARGE STOCK of MATERIALS is been supposed. Seemingly pure water is found import will represent a burden amounting to,

by Dr. E. A. Martel, the French cave explorer, lost, $1,500 roles it is insisted that, whatever always kept on band.

or £2,000,000. In financial The COMPANY has the powerful steamer to come through fissures direct from a polluting and industrial OUBA-MARU" (712 tons, 700 I.H.P.) soil without any filtration through the rock. spesially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES Even passage through chalk, moreover, does equipped with necessary gear, always ready not seem to filter enrface drainage thoroughly. [401

LONG CHAIRS. BAMBOO BLINDS.

in all colours on Sale,

All Orders receive Prompt attention. 59A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG. Hongkong, 20th February, 1908.

Short Notice

£908

form may be given to the tax on trading profits, the large borly of small shareholders are bound

to suffer a serious curtailment of their dividonds. A development of this kind, moreover, could not

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