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NURNISHED or Unfurnished, or For Fale, DETACHED HOUSE with Tennis Court known sa "ROCKVALE, Kimberley

Boal, Kowloon.

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H. K. HOLMES,

54Queen's Road.. Hongkong, 19th April, 1909.

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DOOMS suitable for Offices in No. 10, Ice.

for Of of Javid soon

& Co.'s premises.

Chambors with Bathroom and ww.of-Eltohen- in No. 31, Wyndham Street known sa" College Chambers."

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DAVID SASSOON & Co, Lro.. Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.

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TOUR and FIVE ROOMED HOUSES

HO Kowloon

NEW and COMMODIOUS-SHOPS, Nathan Road, Kowloon. Immediate Possession. Cheap Rentals.

2

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 29TH, 1909."

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

gerbrosi and suspended in a suitable place in the house. When anybody goes out the. THE AIR'S MYSTERY LATERA SHOOK BARE"gouural" is consulted, and if he fuels Babby STRUCTURE RECLOTHING PELEL-GRAVIT and sticky, it is understood. that an umbrella ATION DUE TO MITTER'S CIERVAL VERA-Ay he needed soon, but if the guide is hard and NO. 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL-THE NEW BLUE LIGHT CURE-PEAT'S tough to the touch, it is known to be safe to NEW PRODUCT-WIRE ROPES WITH CROSSE venture forth without preparation for bad won. ther so far the "general" has been an infallible

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(Shop). Opposite the Post Office.

No. 1A, WYNDHAM STREET (suitable for Office and Gedown)

No, 2A, D'AGUILAR STREET (suitable for Office and Godown).

All of which are at present ocenied by Weismann Ltd. For Particulars, etc.

STRANDA HYGROMETER FROM THE BACK- EBY A NEW VIEW OF LEPROSY...

One of the most remarkable discoveries made by balloon soundings in the existsace.around the earth of the stratum of air now knew ce the inversion layer." The automatically. 34, Queen'a Bond Central recording instruments-seat up by M. Tesserene Lagiona... Ho attributes, it to a defective diet, in

Apply to YEE SANG FAT & Co.

Hongkong, 19th March, 1909..

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ro.:.6, OBSERVATORY No

VILLAS, Kowloon. Firo-Boomed House: Electrio Lights and Tennis Const

ERANEE BUNGALOW" Kowloon. A Small Garden attached. Moderate Rental.

Apply to AERATOON V. APCAR & Co.,

14, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1909.

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That leprosy in much like scurvy, its symp John Atelurley, of the London Royal College toms all being the same, is the conclusion of Dr. of Surgeons, who has practiced 15 years in Hawaii. He has, not found the disease cos-

de Bort and others have shown that the tem-which also injects an excessive amount of poi which some necessary elemont is lacking and perature of the air steadily diminishes up to a Bonous substances into the circulation-bacteria height of about eight miles, but that beyond is ptomairies and toxin. a layer about a mile thick that shows a constant For rising: temperature with increasing height. As this stratum must vary the atmospheric density and refraction, it gives a basis for some

The Unofficiul members of the Legislativy | interesting speculations, M. Durand Greville Council last weak, the Singapore Free Prem thinks think it must be faintly luminous, and sug-lation with regard to shipping. In comauttee ways. struck a somewhat interesting line of legis gest that it may produce the "gegenschein "or on the Merchant Bhipping Bill they came to midnight glow opposite the sun, that it uy ship, carrying passengers or not, when

section 15 which prescribes that every British going to

SHIPPING LEGISLATION AT SINGAPORE.

OFFICES on the 1st Floor Hotel Mansions | #-LODOWN, N».5A, DUDDELL STREET give the second lighting up of high peaks in, shall carry a cartain complement of certifi

lately occupied by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.

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BUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED, Hougtong, 24th March, 1909.

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CHỘP and DWELLING HOUSE, No. 78,

Queen's Road, Central. Apply to-

S. J. DAVID & Co,

Prince's Buildings. Hongkong, 25th March, 1909. [519 TO LET.

TO8.2& 3, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

the Parade Ground.

No. 4 MOUNTAIN VIEW (PEAK), Furnished from 1st June to 30th September, 1909.

No. 5, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Peak,

NEW FIVE ROOMED HOUSES in! Skolley Street.

Tho FYRIE, No. 13, Peal. Unfurnished from 1st June, 1909.

FERNSIDE No 71, Posk Unfurnished from 1st May, 1909.

C.MS. PEAK BUNGALOW, furnished, Mount Kellett, from 1st April to end of June, 19094

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Shops, Ofices and Dwelling Rooms:

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GODOWNS in Duddoll Street. BELILIOS

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LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 22nd April, 1909.

TO LET.

₤100.

ALBANY ROAD, HONGKONG;

13(facing Fuble Gardens)

589)

FROM 1er MAY, 1909.....

at present occupied by Madame Marty

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Soleiter, 18, Bank Buildings,

STORAGE.

FOR COAL TIMBER, &c.

10 BE LET, a Portion of MARINE LOT No 289 at NORTH POINT, Butzble For Pros EXTENSIVE WATER FRONT. DEER

Als FOR SALES Portions of MARINE LOTS Nos. 31 & 36 FRAYA EAST Approximate AREA 43,000 SQUARE FT. 999 YEARS" LELSE.

For Particulare, spalyas

GEO, FENWICK & C., Lt. Hongkong, 8th June, 1906.

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NODOWN8, Nos, 95, 96, and 97, PRAYA

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CHATER & MODY,

Victoria Buillings 1264

Hongkong, 1st February, 1909,

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WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48, Yam

Area 85,200 square feet and with 255 feet Ses Frontage. Especially suited for Storage of Coal, Timber, &c

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.

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Tthe PEAX: HOUSE in STEWART Apply

A TERRACE, Farnished or Unfurnished,

H. E. POLLOCK,

18. Bank Building. Hongkong, 20th March, 1969.

1494

INSURANCE

TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN. TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

No

TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1907

€18:114,524.

II.

Authorised Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital Fire Fatde.....

£3,000,000 2,750,000

687,500 0.0 3,065,374 15 7

The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO;

Agents. Hongkong, 21st July, 1908.

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the Alps after the first twilight glow has faded, that it may hold the fue dust that gives the brilliant skies after solcanic eruptions, and may explain other puzzling phenOMANA.

The earthquake-proof building of Prof. Boer; mal reste in a massive bowl, and has a rocking foundation with a curved bottom surface of

somewhat less ralius than that of the howl. A half-spherical pivot fits into a cup bearing at the centre. At eight point near the outside of the bowl are spring buffers, which keep the house or other building from being cauted to freely, and lessen the force of any shocks transmitted. The structure on this foundation is to have a light steel framework, and is ed to resist the severest earthquakes,

cate: officers.

But in the case of foreign ships, only pussinger ships shall come under the operation of the rules which proscribe a certain complement of certificated officers. The point of the discussion is of course, between British and foreign ship leaving that there should be made no distinction

or ports that if one lis to carry, th certain emplonont of certificated officers, 80 ought the other. The Government position, as Bot forth by Mr. Napier, the Attorney General, is that if a ship does not carry passengers, sur port authorities should not interfere in what might be called her internal economy. That is the view the Home authorities have taken. It in the recognised duty of the port whence the vessel sail to guard passengers, from learing in ill-found ships. And the learned expect-viser of Government pointed out that the local Government could hardly be expected to accept a principle of interference with foreign The vegetation on the area' laid waste by the ties lid not exercise. The Unofficial members vessels using the port which the Home authori Mt. Pelee eruption of 1902 is gradually re-

stack to their position, that there ought to be appearing, and the indigo plant, castor oil plano difference mide between British and foreign ships; that if one should not leave the port sensitive, plant, guinea feras, silver ferns and

except under certain coalitions, neither should other plants are spreading brer the ground. the other. Their opposition was of course with Roots not killed by the hot ashes falling above out effect on the passage of the section, which was carried by the Official majority of seven to them have readily penetrated the thin crust. In other places the trampling of animals and it, deciding not to go outside the principle

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by the unanimous vote of the unofficial members The assumption that both gravitation audzes at ports in the Straits Settlements, the

in favour of extending to all ships doing busi repulsion are results of the vibration of elastie rules which apply to British ships, and which do bodies in an inelastic medium has been the undoubtedly increase the working wosts of the RONARE MERCHANTS. RON, STEEL METAL and HARD starting point of the curious experiments of latter. This vote of the unofficial members and Retail Ironmongers Pig Iron.

Wholesale Prof. Arthur Korn. In the simple apparatus misapprehension of the nature of our parts. In Heems tʊ us to be barred upon a somewhat serious and constructed, a metallic globe, with an observative the interests of safety and of lawnmnity the Foundry Coke Importers. General Store. keepers and Chipchandlers. Nos. 35 & 37, HING Pindow, is united by tubes with a cylinler, one Imperial Government has made certain regala- LOONG STREET, (2nd Street, west of Central end of which is closed by a membrane that can'

tion which apply to all ships trading under the Market) Telephone No. 515.

[583 be set into rapid puisation by the alternate against these regulations withough it is

British flag, and we have not a word to push and pull of an electromotor. The meta andoubtedly true that their observation does globo contains two unequal mirilled rubber place our countrymen at a certain disadvantage balls, at a speed that may be made inconceivably are content to believe that the gain outweighs the

with in competing some other countries, We great, the motions becoming quite invisible to advantage. Wehold:

I most firmly that it

Would be the eye, At a certain speed of vibration." a simple justice to British shipowners to require the mysterioas thing is seen, the smaller ball | observance of identical regulation by all ships The reason beginning slowly to move through the water for this opinion is that Great Britain is impor--

trading with British home ports, toward the larger, gradually increasing its ting and exporting directly on an enormous seale, speed: Measurements showed that the attraction he cannot be ignored by any company of increased on approach exactly as did that world's trade. If-she makes regulations applie

shipowners which is anxious to have a share.in which pulled down Newton's apple and able to foreign equally with her own ships-the Prof. Kom considers his theory proven, foreigners will conform to them--must conform gravitation depending entirely on

in order to have a share of her busines. the fact

Therefore, by unification of shipping laws the As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF that all heavenly bodies are surrounded by an would not only protect her own shipowneKS ether that is inelastic. There are over-vibrations against what in other connections would be in matter, moreover, just as there are over-tones described as sweated competition, but might do in the sound of a violin-string. When the at end of comfort in the mercantile fests of the something also to raise the standard of efficiency tracted bodies come too near, these over-vibra- whole world. tlons come into play, and their effect in the But the point we wish to raise is whether the inelastic water is izmediately repulsive, explain- ports in these Colonies are in a position con- parable to that of the United Kingdom, We ing the cases of repulsion seen in the heavens.

think not. Dedot from the total trade of The therapeutic value of the electric light ente translipment business and the remainder Penang, for instance, that portion which repre having been recng dizel in the Finsen treatment is almost insignifcunt. Already we have had of certain akin diseases, the lamp smitting the experience of the slight influences which suffice most effective rays is now being sought Dr.It is said that the charges made by the Shipping to send parts of our entreport business elsewhere: O. Vogel, & German, points ont that the ultra- violet rays were formerly credited with special healing powers, but it is now known that their effect is chiefy an etebing,, with no deep penetration. Bine and violet, now claimed to be the curative rays, kill all bacteria in five minutes, and ponotrate deeply into the tissues. It is

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lose little or nothing by doing so, and even we did there would be a certain obligation upon us, has two layers of strands wound over a care in we inquire into other people's business to our own A new rope, brought out a year or two ago,dards of the mother country. But why should to conforint to the safety and humanitarian stan

opposite directions, the purpose being to prevent loss and detriment? It Gornian, French, Dutch, the familiar twisting-or, rather, untwisting Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, &c., do, havé on lifting leade. A recent text showed that is it our business to poke our uses into their standards which differ materially from our own. while such ropes do not have in themselves any affairs and tell them to live open a higher level? tendency to rotate, they may have other faults No doubt the view of the unofficial members in the course they took on Monday was inspired A rope tested bed & breaking strength of 10 tons try a belief that the change they proposed was 2 evt. but on being revolved tive turns by hand, necessary in order to give our own shipping & the outer layer was untwisted and relaxed, fairer chance. In a mild sort of way they were throwing the entire lend of the inner strands, praying the protectionist fing of zaliey, Aud which had about one-third of the strength of doubt the prudence of its practical application,

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