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INSURANCE

AYORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-

NETLE INSURANCE COMPAN

TOTAL FUNDS AT 31 DECEMBER, 1907

£18,114,624.

Authorised Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital

II. Fire Finds

£3,000,000 2,750,000

697,500 0 0 3,065,874 15 7

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 21st July, 1909.

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MITSUBISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS,

NAGABAKI..

CODE WORD: "DOCK," A.1, A.B.C., and Engineering Coda Unet NEW DOCK NOW OPEN, DOCK No. 3.

Extrenie Length........

722 feat

Longth on Blocks

714

Width of Entrance on Top

961

Width of Extrance on Bottom

88

Water on Blooks at Spring Tide 34

DOCK No. 1.

Extreme Length....

523 feat.

Length on Blocks

513

Width of Entrance on Top

88

Width of Entrance on Bottom

DOCK, No. 2.

Extreme Length...

371 foot

Length on Blocks

350

Width of Entrance on Top

Width of Entrance ou Bottom...

Water, on Blocks at Spring Tide

Water on Blocks at Spring Tido

PATENT SLIP

Suitable for vessels up to 1,000.

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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

NHE P. & O. S, N. C...'e Steamer

DEVANHA"

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kawloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon where each will be sorted ent Mack by Mark

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15TH, 1909.

BRITISH TYPES IN CHINA.

MARVELLOUS MEMORIES.

·SOME STRIKING EXAMPLES.

⠀⠀⠀ It has always been my idea when in Chins to get away from the grout ses port towns like Hongkong and Shanghai and note how the Books that the modern man cherishes he san The art of remembering is to-day a lost one. Briton conducta himself in whatis tériel “real Chius,” where atam and electricity have not easily possess, and facts that he wishes to preserva un yot zando life-civilised. But civilisation" for future use he finds in books of reference of is to be found right in the heart of China. For his own card catalogues Only in Chins and instance I bought Crosso and Blackwell's pickles among the devotees of esoteric religions is memory and Capstan Navy Cut Chungking 1,500 | above par. Every Chinese scholar worthy of tho miles up the great Yangtze from Shanghat name for two thousand years at least hus, says At Chungking, you will also find the British Denys P. Myers, writing in the New York Conent training his pole ponies beat the Tribune, known the Five Books of Confucius so German Naval officere, the forces mesting nearly by rote that if every copy was destroyed on a sand-spit of the Yangtze to fight it out. thousand could be taken immediately from True there are no motorcars after Hankow and memory, and the differences in text weald be

rikishas and telephones and iced sterghas,

The Fire Books are printed in many volumes, library in themselves; yet so well are they textually known among the literal that it is an insult which well-meaning foreigners anxions to display their learning frequently commit-to refer to a passage anywhere in any of them except by the mention of a word or two. The text of all is a well known to the scholars as is the passage To be or not to be" to Shake- spearean sobolars.

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Consignment be obtained as soon as the only one at the latter city, but Hankow has negligible.

And Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo:-

From London, &e., ax 8.8, "Macedonia." Heed for thirty days in a'sampan of and with the commentaries of Mencius' make a

From Australia ex a.s.Indiu,” From Caloutta, oz s.5. " Nila.” From Persian Gulf, ex B. I. 8. N. and

B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.

Fire Insurance will be effected by me in

any case whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the

Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an appointed hour, All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hors after which date they connot be recognized,

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowań.

E A. HEWETT, Superintendent. Hongkong, 9th June, 1909,

BEN LINE OF STEAME RS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

WILA

Hize on the Yangte and traversed 1,000 of the great river I had plenty of time to study mankind. To meet anyone whe spoke En gish, gave you a tiffin, or a good eigar, was treat beyond words. The fare was carry and rice for breakfast, tiffin and dinner and mightily tough chickens they were, still it was a case of eat or starve and I chose the latter. The Goods not cleared by the 15th inst., at 4.most palatial steamers run between Shanghai will bo kabject to rent

Bad Lobang 1 distance of 1,000 miles: then you said good by to all luxury. "From a palace to 8 prison

is not much of an exaggeration. The sampan

leaky, draughty and overrun with rata! There were eight of a crew who slept, ate and smoked on space about 10 feet square. Their food was fried cabbage and rice and on this diet they walked like mountain goats 20 milna a dartre

over hauling the craft through the famous rapids. Wonderful mon Never a complaint, and their ramuneration from Fohang to Chung. king, a distance of 50 miles, which took 20 days, was 33 (Men) pach. Whore in any other part of the world conid you find labour so cheap ?

I shall never forget, after having a passed i week in the bost with the rain coming through the root occasionally, not having taken my clothes off at night on account of the perishing cold, and the eternal sasell of fried osbbage in my nostrils, the five o'clock tea I had with the Rev. Mr. Platt and his wife who are doing missionary work at Kweifn, The Chino Inland Mission makes it a rate that their preachers and teachers mast live right in the heart of the Chinese, quartar, so it can be imagine how repellant this is to people of refined tastes. The Platte and Misa Clarke were seated at five fine little sous who handed the cake round. That tea and cake was magnificent, Mr. Platt was once in a merchant's office in Melbourne and where he lives on half that amount. Mrs. Platt gave up an income of £300 a year to go to China

smiled broadly when I said, '1 suppose you mados life worth living, you cannot really like won't stay at this life long eat off from all that

Kwei-fu."

8.8. "BENLEDI," FROM LEITH, ANTWERP, MIDDLES-

BRO' AND LONDÓN.

could be taken down verbatim again from his Macaulay once boasted that if Milton and Virgil and Homer were destroyed, the poots dictation. About a thousand years ago such a necessity arose in China. A gt. Emperor ordered the classics and commentaries to be utterly destroyed. Those who clung to their books more than to their lives worn executed, well-nigh complete. The next Emperor, how and their books burned. The catastrophe was ever, favoured the learning of the literati and himself ordered the texts restored from the memories of the learned. The catalogue of classic books includes more than thirty-two hundred titles in many thousands of volumes, and of these a very great many have been pre- served to posterity solely by the the momories of those old men.

PREMIUM BONES

WF are the largest Dealers in the world to these attractive

WHAT ARE THESE BONDS?

They are high-class and absolutely safe securities, payable to bearer, has the various Governments and Municipalities of Europe; they are redouble periodical drawings, either with Cash Premiuma varying from £40 to £40,08% or, at the very least, at their full nominal valus. EASY PAYMENTS.

Wo sell these Bonda singly or in combinations of the most advantageous ones, payable by convenient Monthly Instalments ranging from 15, to £20. Write for Handbook, sent post free, MELVILLE, GLYN & Co., Bankers, 3, Rae de la Bourse, PARIS (France).

CUSTOMS GAZETTE.

The Castors Gazette for the first quarter of and the report on dans and duties for the period this year, giving the quarterly returns of trade from January to March, 1909, has just been learn from the Shanghai Mercury that as com issued. Our copy is not yet to hand bat w's pares with the corresponding period of last year the report on dues and inties shows a con siderable increase in total collection, although of

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and

the preceding year. Of the individual parts, it was, of course, less than the last quarter show increases and 15 doorenses, among the the latter, however, being Shanghai. A grout falling off in the collection of opium date and likin

is mainly responsible for Shanghai's de MEMORISING FROM THE BIBLE.

oreano. Harbin district is for the first time To-day the Bible is the best memorieod book in livided into two sub-dietriots, Manchonli the world, and no doubt it could be entirely Suifesho. The following is the report of duss reconstructed from the minds of its students, and duties, January-Marsh quarter, 1909, show- | One young woman alons could dictate the Newing the total collection for the quarter compared

Testament. Ehe is Miss Leste May Williams of with the same quarter of 1908:- North Carolina, now twenty years old. Early

Port in March, 1905, the Rev. J. A. Brondell, parter of the local Baptist church, offered two Bibles as prizes for memerising verses of Scripture. The first wax for those over twelve

yoars old,

ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby a formed that all Goods are being funded at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and THE WORKS are well equipped with Kowloon Wharf und Godown Company, La., ( o'clock tea dressed in Chinese costanie with two the second for those under that age.

LATEST PLANTS and APPLI. whence and/or from the wharves delivery may ANCES to undertake BUILDING or be obtained,

ENGINES, and No Claims will be admitted after the Goods REPAIRING SHIPS, BOILERS; and also ELECTRICAL have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining WORK.

andelivered after the 15th June, will be subject A LARGE STOCK of MATERIALS is to rent. always kept on hand.

The COMPANY has the powerful steamer "OURA-MARU" (712 tons, 700% IHP: specially built for SALVAGE PURPOSEÉ equipped with necessary gear, glways ready Short Notion,

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SANTAL MIDY to Copalbe,

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122-2-6

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre-

sented to the Undersigned on or before the 22nd June, or they will not be recognizei.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be loft in the Gedowns, where they will be examined on the 15th June, at 11a.m.

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

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 8th June, 1909.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS."

FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

THE Steamship

TH

"GLENESK," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed AT THEIR RISK into the Godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, where sach consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained-as-scon na the Goods are landed.

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"Oh why do you say that. Perlups in ton years time we may take a holiday. Our work is so engrossing that we don't think of our exile." Miss Clarke is quite a bright faced pretty English girl and walks through the lanes and byways of Kweifu in har Chinese costume mak ing converts. I met her in one of these rambles and put out my hand to take hors.

Please don't. I masn't shake handy, the Chinese would be horrified;" so I shook hands with myself.

“Poor girl,” I thought, literally buried alive at Kweifu in the cause of Christianity.

The Belgian and French orders never leave China. When once they come ont they remain and only permanent incapacity is sufficient excuse to allow them to return to Europe. The photograph I have of one of the missionaries at Iohang who lies in his coffin with both arms cut off, both feet, and his akn bashed in, tellà its own story of what a missionary may incur. This poor padre was done to death by au in Furiated father whose son, it was said, had been whipped by the priest. Once a Chinaman's blood is up he is a fiend incarnate.

Goods not cleared by the 16th inst., will be met, mislenaries of various orders. Though subject to reat,

No Fire Insurance will be affected. All damaged packages must be left in the todowns, where they will be examined on the | 16th inst., at 11AM.

within 14 days of the ship's arrival.

No chims will be recognized if not presented

MOGREGOR BROS, & GOW. Hongkong, 9th June, 1909.

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SIEMSSEN & CO.,

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FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1864 TO 31ST DECEMBER

1913, BEING FROM THE INT YEAR OF TH 76TH CYCLE TO THE BOTя YEAR OF THE 76TH CYCLE.

PRICE $2 CASH.

On Sale at the " HONGKONG DAILY PRESS" Office or Agents in all the Ports of the Far East.

The Book will be sent by Registered Post (free) to any part of the World unrepresented by Agents en receipt of Money Order.

FROM EUROPE.

HE H.A.L. Steamship

· BRASILIA " Captain Jäger, having arrived Cousignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given befors To-DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharges will be landed at Consignees risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Gedowns of the Hong kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld, and stored at Consignees risk and expense,

All Claims must be presented within ton days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be wimitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 17th inst, will be subject to rent

All broken, chofed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be. examined on the 16th inst; af 3 P.M.

No Fire Lasurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINTE,

Hongkong Office.

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Hongkong, 10th June, 1909,

EAST ASIATIC COMPANY, LTD.

COPENHAGEN.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE Steamship

"STAM."

At every tain almost on the Yangtze you

the life is hard and monotonous they are not in any way deprived of luxury. The China Inland Mission la exceptionally got in this respect, not forgetting, of course, the C. I. M. is a very rich concern.

Antuzg Tatungkow

Dairen Harbin District

Manohouli Suifenho

hinwangtao Newchang

Tientsin Chetoo

On the day of the award Miss Williams had committed and recited to the committee 12.235 Testament excepting the two genealogies of verses of scripture, covering the entire Now

Jesus in the first chapter of Matthew and the solections from Genesis, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Kisochow.... third chapter of Luke, and including liberal and other parts of the Old Testament. The Chungking. New Testament itself contains 7,959 verses and Iclang 190,000 words. Miss Williams sister Elk, Bhasi eleven years old, won the prize for the younger Ch

Chargeba children, reciting seven hundred and fifteen Yochow versos. The winner of the first prize performed Honkow ber mnemonic feat in ninety days, during Kikiang which she had un attack of the measles She Wahu had averaged about one hundred and thirty-five Noaking verses daily during her three months of study,

The most frequent cases of wonderful momories found among mathematical prodigiós, Thess usually develop their remark- able faculty quite young, and in later life sink into very ordinary individuale. The phenomenon has over heen explained: but there are several well attested instances of Fenuine marvels of this kind,

COLBUEN THE PRODIGY.

Chinkiang Shanghai... Soochow Hangchow Niagpo Wenchow... Saxtono Foochow Amoy ... Swatow

1903 Hk. Tls. 6,008.500

155,459.265

1909 Hi. Tik, 9,471:458 230.858 378.216.803

47,859.107 16.176.320 118,086.307. 33,229,191 1,594,027 6,824.510 35,922.216 28,698.262 336.54.966

279.698.256 165,088.970 115,841.977 313,325.889 232,869.498 112,255.920 165,400,456

13,611,628 1.161.893 21,845,847

19.887.525

11,505.603

531,300.592 676,765.291

104,570.924

228.025.200

1,786.895

14.821.333

35,764.901

126.484.579

234,169.896

273.921.771

25,025.504 65.509.097

293,689,766

2,169,753.845 2,200,362.072

20,290.289 17,295.273

100,785.189

112,760.524

10,025.412 2,521.752

169,978.272 200,476.960 372,022 353

800,566,691

52,660.135

128.474.595

125,743.489 8,214.912 2,594.991

· 184,052.689 194,431.302

400,952.715 731478.476

25.598.456 55,611:427 50,901.523 122,145.064 109,926.078 17,699.750 11,971.679 65,546.497 71,170,724 32,903.203 31.291.607

Total Hk. Tis. 7,062,970.761 6,796,476.181

Zerah Colbarn was one auch. At the age of Caston air he could neither write nor cipher, and yet Kongmorn. conld answer, apparently by mare intuition, all Sanchai sorts of arithmetical questions correctly and in- Wachow stantly. At eight he left the United States to Nanning show in London, and there in a moment Kiangchow answered this question correctly, "How many Pakhei minutes are there in 84 years?" He added the number of seconds in the period immediately on request. He could not explain the mental pro- cose he used, and it may have been simply a queer instinct. Young Colbarn raised sight to the sixteenth power mentally, and are the auswer as 281,474,976,7 10,656 without any hesitation whatever, and found the square root of 106,929 to be 327 instantly. But he was only a prodigy.

BIDDER AT HIS FIGURES.

George Bidder, the son of a Devonshire labourer, who was born in 1806 and died rich man, director of rails iya, and engineer of London Docks in 1878, was another wonder of the same kind When he was ten years old he answered in two minates t'a question: What is the interest on £4,444 for 4,444 day at 41 per cent?"

THE WORLD'S COAL SUPPLY.

COMPARATIVELY SHOET LIFE OP JAPAN'S ЯEAMS.

In an article on the world's coal supply, the Osaka Mainichi says it is superfluous to mention that the richness of the coal supply has had a great deal to do with the gradual develop. meat of British Industry and the prosperity of America in recent times. The latest figures of production, &c. of coal in America, Great Britain, Germany, France and Japan are as follows (presumably the period the year 1908)

Average Number Toma Per of Miners. Miner.

641,000,

429

670

268

967,000

141

$11,000

36

178.000

14

309 275 202 106,589 131

The type of Consul one meets in the interior of Chins doesn't complain of over work. He as a rule, is surrounded with home comforts, Good wine, cigars, lawn tennis and fox terriers give that tough to an Englishman's home that we all admire. He yowns and of course wishes himself back in Piccadilly. At luncheon at the British Consulate with Mr. Little, at Ichaug, I could have imagined myself in London so far as comfort is concerned and in many respects a great deal more lazury. At the Lobang Club, in a room for reading and one for billiards, the whole British colony aasambles. The shipping At twelve on the London Stock Exchange he

Production boss and clerk are having stangahs, the customs, answered this problem in one minute: "If the officials are having 100 up, the doctor, the consul pendulum of a clock vibrates the distance of Country. · Milliontons. and all the rest are doing to this remote city of nine inches and three-quarters in a second, of

América... Chins just as they would in any civilised city, | time, how many inches will it vibrate in the Great Britain... Yet look ont of the door! There is a Chinese course of seven years, two hours, one minute, Germany criminal not far off with his chin at an angle of and fifty-six seconds, each year of three hundred France 45 degrees protruding from the top of a cage and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight: and he can't lower it. There is another in the minutes, and fifty-five seconds!" Within the stocks. There is a naked beggar

lying

in the minute the boy had answered correctly, his midst of frightful filth and squalor. Yes, you result being 2,153,832,1442; in miles, 33,993 are in China and the picture without is in | miles 990 yards, two feet, and three-quarters of strange contrast to the comfortable British Club an inch. within. Truly the Englishman is the embodi ment of apathy. It is said that two Englishmen meeting each other on the ruins of Messina the morning after the quake nodded nanohalantly and one said I wonder, old chap, if we can get. a drink anywhere." At Chungking exsoutions take place frequently just behind the Imperial Post Office, the populace gathering as at a matinee. China is still China, but I bar look- ing at executions.-H. M. M. in the Singapore Free. I'ress.

WEATHER REPORT

The Hongkong Observatory yestanday issued the following report:-

On the 14th at 11.55 am. The barometer has fallen quickly in Japan, and risan con siderably along the Yangtze and over the N.E. coast of Ching.

The depression lying near the mouth of the Yangtze. yesterday, has moved quickly towards E.NE. and is now situated over the S.E. part of the Ses of Japan.

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opiem, Tressure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the lazsi- Prosare remains high over the China Sos done and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the and the Pacific towards the Bonins. It is Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown highest to the Eastwant of the latter ares. Company. Limited, Kowloon, and West Point expected in the Formers Channel and moderate Moderate S.W. and variable winds may be Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods: monsoon over the N. part of the China Sen. have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending undelivered after the 18th inst., will be subject at 10a.m. to-day, 0.02 inches.

to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowne, where they will be examined on 18th inst, at 9.30 AM

All claims manat reach us before the 22nd inst., for they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bille of Lading will be countersigned by: the undersigned.

MELCHERS & Co., Agente. Hongkong, 11th June, 1909,

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Hongkong & Neighbourhood

125 MILES AN HOUR.

WONDERS OF THE NEW ITALIAN HYDROPLANE.

Japan...

(We have ventured to correct the averages in

the above table, our contemporary having under- estimated them in each case.). It will be seen. that America is the greater producer of coal, with an output thirty times as great as that of Japan, while Great Britain followe, with nine- teen times Japan's production. The conl mea sures of England and America are vast. It is calculated that at the present rate of production, the coal beds in England will continne to yield for 376 years and those in Americs for 567 The correspontient of s London paper,

years. (How such exact figuretire arrived at it is writing from Milan last month says:-

diffenit to say.) Kegarding the production per To-day 350 members of the International man, the American miner digs five time Cotton Congress, fully one-third of whom are the quantity of his Japanese confrère, English-speaking people, were conveyed in a while the Englishman new and faruriously fitted special train to Lagoas much Japan's Maggiore. After a sumptuous lunch at the recently completed Regina Hotel, the party were taken on a steamer trip up the lake, where the marvellous capacities of the new Italian hydroplane were displayed to them. It has bean constructed by Bignor Fagliani, Minnese engineer, whose inventions range over a perica of thirty years. This water-racer is able to tear along at forty five miles an hour.

produces 2 times for cool pro- pacity duction cannot be said to be very large. According to investigation in Chikuzen and Bazen provinces, the supply of coal in those regions will not last longer than 78 years, while the beds of Mike, Hokkaido, and elsewhere may be exhausted within 140 years. It will thus be sees that Japan will prove no match in the coal competition. Regarding the sport of the fuel, Great Britain leads with 64,000,000 tons, fellow- It is propelled by a motor engine of only 25 ed Germany with 20 million tons and Amprice horse-power. The machine presents the ap with 8,300,000 tons Against these. Japan's pearance of a torpedo, and when in a state export of 3,400,000 tons must be regarded as of rest lies upon the surface of the water. large in comparison with her production. This When set in motion its seven planes, all slightly must be attributed to the fact that domesti inclined and each accessive one of which con, industries have not yet fully developed, and is rise and skim the surface. A screw propeller is demand. If too large a quantity of coal it vergee nearer the centre, cause the water flier to inavoidable in view of the trend of supply and fixed at an inclined angle of 4 deg, at the hinder ported without due regard to Japan's capacity of port of the vessel, and always remains in the production, the resultant curtailment in the life water. On this occasion Signor Faghani carried of the coal-beds will prove a cause for regret.- four passengers. Helas just finished a size hyd

* Large Japan Chronicle. hydroplane, which can also be

used

in

at

an hour

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:-

ataining the terrific speed of 125 milepleted NOTICE TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS S. and S.W.5 winds, moderate; his series of experiments with this latest in- fair,

* | prōred design, the principal features of which. 8.W. & vari.

are the substitation of the screw propeller by sble winds, mo- pair of serial ones and use of benzine instead of derate.

steam power, Signor Fagliani will turn his Same as No. 1. attention to the building of a mammoth ocean- going hydroplane for Transatlantic purposes, winds, capable of whirling 100 passengers between Genoa

and Buonos Ayres or New York,

Formoss Channel

Bouth coast of Übins between Hongkong and Lamooks. South coast of Chins between

Hongkong and Hainan... modernta.

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·la so generally and sniformly successful in giving sirength to the stomach,correct= ing the digestive system, and regulating the liver, kidaaya, and bowels, and the pas of Beecham's Puts will prove to your perfect extinction that they

MAKE GOOD EVERY CLAIM.

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