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NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

"SQUARE BOTTLE ”

WHISKY.

UNVARIED FOR OVER 150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS I

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG

LANE CRAWFORD & CO.,

and from ALL WINE MERCHANTH,

HONGKONG

174

SHORTHAND

AND TYPEWRITING

BUREAU. :

DEPORTING of say Description Under

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

TUN PHILIPPINES HAY. MATERIAL. Abaci in the native name for Manila hemp, the fibre of a species of Canana

(Musa textilis) of the Philippine Jalands.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 3RD. 1913.

BOOK

MUSLIN

MATERIALS

PLAIN

AND

In Japan it is woven into braid, and is 00RTAIN this so-talled Tagal: braid, suddenly become popular, that is expected to be used this year for half of the stomer bats of American women. The great advant ages clainted for the fibre are its length. and great strength. The airual report of the Philippine Agricultural Depart ment illustrates the cloth and braids

beginning

bo to

made that in Manila on an important scale from "knotted" abaen, and explains that this is a name given to several fibres of the finest grade tied together and reeled in a hank. The few sheaths surrounding the core of the abaca stem are selected as being of the desired choice quality.

are

PLANTS MADE POISON BY DROUTH. An investigation of the Bouth African disease known as lamziekte, or lame-sick- nces, suggests that it is due to a special plant poison that is generated under ebnormal conditions in grasses or other plants that are normally harmless. Its development seems to be associated with unusual weather and soil experiences, of which summer drouth is important. Through such conditions wilting would favour the formation of the poison, and this gives explanation for the common belief that the disease results from eating. wilted plants.

BATE 048 FOR THE COTTAGE An improved plan for acetylene light-

Rtaken by Competent and Reliable Note-ing consists in using portable calcium

Takers.

Correspondenca and Tabulated Work tumed unt with Accuracy and despatch.

Contracts arranged. Secretarial duties undertaken.

II. E. VICTOR,

Manavor

10, Garen's Road Central,

(First Floor). Telephone No. 650.

Hongkong, 3rd March, 1913.

{397

JUST ARRIVED.

AMERICA'S

LEADING

W.D. CORSET,

GREAT DEMAND FOR LONG WAIST ERECT FORM AND NUFORM.

HOOSAIN-ALI & Oo,

14, Queen's Ro-d Central

Corner of Zetland Street.

Hongkong, 14th April, 1913.

MARTIN'S

MBA Femedy for alilovmencavities. Ladki BININ knếp s DGR of

100 y lo námimą Barack.

My

* ÜİYƏRAUMZIANA ARAU, bende khalsamo

Cuma and klotas said Who m SARTÍN, OU DAN MENampión. Daa

RASTIN'?

145

GRIMAULT'S SYRUP

OF

HYPOPHOSPHITE OF LIME

FOR

STUBBORN COUGHS

BRONCHITIS

WEAK LUNGS

CATARRH

CONSUMPTION.

FOR SALE.

A TABLE OF THE

BATES OF EXCHANGE

AT

HONGKONG

POL

DEMAND DRAFTS ON BOMBAY

On the Day Preseding the Departure of th English Mails from the Year of the Cloela, of the Indian Mints to the Free Coinage o Bilver

RATES

FROM 1893 TO 1909;

ALSO

FOR SOVEREIGNS, GOL' LEAF, BAB BILTER (From 1900), and other Useful Information.

PRICH: 31 Canh.

carbide containers,

or gas-generators, which cannot be removed for changing until the pipe to the gasometer is closed, and which are sent to the supply house for re-charging. With no loose or exposed carbide, there is little danger of escape of gas into the house. Avoiding waste is said to make it practicable to run six 25-candle-power lamps ten hours on pound of carbide, at a cut of three or four cents,

UNBALANCED DEVELOPMENT.

隐

Man's downfall at the end of this geological age is likely to result from excessive brain development. At the London Royal Institution the other day. Dr. S. A. Woodward drew attention to what is called momentum in evolution. and gave illustrations of parts that have grown to unwieldy and uselesa size at the expense of other parts, By the end of the Pleistocene or Glacial period the formidable tusk of the sabre-toothed tirer had grown quite beyond any usefulness to the animal. At the end of the same period, deor, which had begun with smooth heads, had developed antlers of unwieldy size, and in a German species these had even reached a span of twelve fect. Until the end of the Cretacous period all animals were cold-blooded, with no great brain-power. Then warm- blooded animals appeared all over the world, the enormous development of body was checked, and the brain began to grow Besides at the expense of all the rest, increasing in size. the central brain grew at the expense of the kind or automatic brain. Man weems to have descended from an Old World monkey, not found in America, and his skeleton has altered less than that of any other mammal. superiority bas depended solely on development of the brain. The skull of the fossil of La Chapelleaux-Saints shows a brain larger than that of the average European of to-day, but it was of low quality, and in any respects the skull was intermediate between man and ape.

WETTEST TEMPERATE-ZONE STATION. Rather unexpectedly, the slopes of Snowdon, a Welsh mountain only 3,500 fest high, have proven one of the wettest regions of the world. The average annual rainfall of the globe is about 36 inches; that of tropical Cherranongee, Assam is 010 inches, with an extreme of 905 inches in 1881; and that of Maranham, Brazil, 277 inches. Seathwaite, a little village of the English valley of Borrow- dale, has claimed the third highest record. The Meteorological Office, however, has recently received reports from thirteen Welsh stations, of which Lluchfa, at an altitude of 2,500 feet, showed the greatest European rainfall-247 iuches and eleven exceeded the 143 inches of Seath- waite,

BUIP-CLEANING. SIMPLIFIED.

A new apparatus for cleaning a vessel without decking is carried on a scow, and includes a suspended brush prested against the hull by a proneller, which is rotated with the brush by an electric

FIGURED

WITH

VARIETY

EDGING S

AND

INSERTION.

CAO

MADRAS

MUSLINS

PLAIN,

MOUTRIE'S

SUPPLY

THE PIANO

FRILLED

LACE

EDGED,

FIVE

LIBERAL

TASSELLED

AND

SCOLLOPED.

MADRAS

WILLIAM POWELL I

FRINGES

LACE CURTAINS

COLOURED MADRAS CURTAINS.

WM.

PRINTED AND

STENCILLED

MUSLIN

POWELL,

YEARS' GUARANTEE.

DISCOENT FOR

CASH.

PRICES RANGE FROM

$380,00

EASY TERMS FOR HIRE PURCHASE.

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

BANKING CORPORATION.

BANKS

ONGKONG

AND

PAID-OP CAPITAL

RESERVE FUNDE-

STELLING

SILVER

BHANGHAI

$15,000,000

£1,500,000 at 2/$15,000,000

$17,200,000

132,200,000

RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROF YOв$15,000,000

Comer or DIRECTES.

S. H. DODWILL, B-q.-Chairman. Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE-Deputy Chairman.

W. L. Patfonden, Eng.

G. Friesland, Esq.

9. dubbay. Erq.

LTD.

€27

P. H. Holyoak, Esq. DR. Í atraez, Esq,

YOU MAY REST ASSURED

that Beesham's Pills wit be of great service to you if your stomach is out of order er your liver is sluggish. The conditions of life in these days are so strenuous chat nearly everybody is at times, overtaken by variout derangements of the digestive- organs. Even the strongest and heathiest occasionally require a little corrective medicine. It is worth remembering that thousands of people have proved that

BEECHAM'S PILLS

speedily exert a curative effect upon the disturbed organs and restore them to their normal healthy state. This splendid preparation has a world-wide reputation for relieving the ailments arising from stomach and liver and kidney disorders, such as languor, depression, flatulence. ronstipation, biliousness, headache, etc. If you have any such symptoms, take Beecham's Pills and, depend upon it, they WILL DO YOU GOOD.

Sold Inboxes labelled price Old., Vista. & 29.

dial, and as a satisfactory figura is reached, the bidder presses his button, causing the figure on the board to light up and the person's number to be registered by an annunciator. Successive higher bids are recorded in the same way.

A NOVEL STORAGE VAULT.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

THE AMERICAN MATE.

223.2

The T.K.K. str. Nippon Maru arrived at Yokohama from Honolulu on the 27th May, and is expected here on the 6th June

The T.K.K. str. Tenyo Mare left Honolulu for Yokohama on the 23rd May, where ohe is expected on the 3rd June, and is due in Hongkong on the 17th June,

THE ENGLISK MAIL.

The P. & O. str. Arcadia left Bingapore for this port on the 31st May, at 8 am, with the outward English ma Is, and is due bure on the 4th June, at about noon.

MERCHANT STEAMERS.

A Berlin storage Tault. designed especially for tracings of drawings, can- aists of earthenware pipes a few inches in diameter imbedded in a mass of concrete. The tates are closed with povers of stamped steel, and there have space for numbers or other marks for in dexing the contents. To avoid aceumu'a tion of water from the extinction of a fire or any other cause, the tubes aro The Mogul Line str. Erroll, from slightly inclined toward the opening. United Kingdom, left Singapore on the This vault was put to use about four 29h May, and is due here on or about years ago, and tracings that have been the 3rd June, at daylight. stored ever since have been not only kept The Fen Lino str. Bencleuch, from in safety but have been preserved in a Leith, Middlesbro and London, left perfect condition that is attributed to Singapore on the 29th May, for this port, the even temperature.

and may be expected to arrive here on or Tabout 4th June.

A NEW STERILIZER.

F. Lieb, Esq.

J. A. Plummer. "Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shollim. H. A. Sieba, Esq.

Chine ManaGUE I Hongkong-N. J. STABE,

MANAGUE:

Shanghai A. G. BIAPHAN.

LONDON BANKTES:

LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINSTE} -BANK, LIMITED.

Bokosove-INTERPET AirJewe

On Current Account at the rate of Tec pr

eat per sorum on the Daily Balance,

Op Fun Darosira... For 3 menile. 21 per cent. por Annum. For 'ths. 37 per cent. par Anzum.

For 12 memils, 4 per cent per Annum

N. J. BTABE,

Chist· Manager

OKOBANA

19

BANY

Forpore Bt May 10~3

THE

SPECIE LIMITED.

AUTHORIŠED CAPITAL........... Ter 48,000,¢¢{ PAIP-UP CAPITAL Yep 30,000,rco RESERVE FUND... Yen 18,700,000

wwwwwwwww

HEAD OFFICE--YOTOHAMA Franches and Agencier at Antorg-Hsien Liao-Yang Ryojun

Calcutta Fombay Chargebon Dairez (Dalny)

(Port Arthur London EDD Froncine Los Angeles Shanghai Lyons Tiebling Tientsin Newekwong Tokyo

Fengtion (Madan) Nagagaki Hookow

Harbin Bonelalu Kobo

New York

Osika

Pekin

Шун

INTEENST ALLOWED ON CURRENT ÀCODUNTI Deposita received for fixed perioda at rates to be obtained on application.

EISHI ONO, Manager.

443

Hongkong, 31st March. 1913, THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL CHARTEL).

The P. & O. str. Socotra left Singapore for this port on the 26th May, at 6 p.m.,Capital......... and is due here on the 4th June, at about

Reserve Fund Ga.m.

The mercury vapour lamp is claimed by Herr Otto Haase to be as effectivo as a sterilizer of underclothing as in trac- ing water. The ultra-violet raya produce:

The O.S.K. str. Tacoma Maru, from ozone, and this destroys all disense germs without injuriously affecting the textile Tacoma, arrived at Manila on the 30th materials in any way. In the experi-May, a.m., and will leave again for menta made, not less than thirteen of the Hongkong on the 2nd June, p.m., and is' most virulent disease bacilli were present. due at Hongkong on the 5th June, a.u

The P. &O, str. Gandia left Singapore all of them being totally destroyed by exposure to the light rays for periods, for this port on the 31st May, at 8 a.m., and is due here on the 6th June, at abort ranging from five to sixty seconds.

4.m.

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

The str. Zafiro left Manila on the 31st May, and is due kere on the 4th June, at daylight

on 1st June, at 6 ami

The Swedish East Asiatic Co.'s str. Canton left Port Said on the 12th May. and may be expected here on the 7th June.

The Bank Lino str. Boveric, from Tacoma, arrived at Yokohama on the 80th May, and is due at Hongkong on the 10th

June.

The I.G.M. str. Scharnhorst, which left

The Surdish East Asiatic Co.'s str. here on 20th May, arrived at Shanghai Centon left Antwerp on the 13th May. The I.G.M. str. Prins Ludvig, which and may be expected here on the 20th left here on 28th May, arrived at Sings- pore on 1st June, at 4 p.m.

The 0.8.K. str. Tacoma Maru, from

June.

TRDO-CHINA ETRAM NAVIGATION CO., YATI,

Capital Subscribed (paid up)

......... Yen 10,000,000 » Yên 620,000 Yen 2,620,000

HEAD OFFICE: TAIPER, FORMOSA

BLANCHE AND. ÅGENCIES:

*

* moy

Auping

Swatow Koto

Tainan

Tameni

Canton Foochow Keslung

Moparski

Oesta Blaurbai

Tokyo Yokohama

HONGKONG OFFICE, 3. DES VEUT ROAD. Interest allowed Current Accounts Deposits received on terms which may be he' on application.

OF

K. TSUYZURA FARA, Maneger

[63€ Hongkong, 1st May, 1913.

EDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE

HANDELSBANK (NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMERCIAL BANK)

ESTABLISHED 1863,

(629-2

BANKS

BONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

*THE· Businows of the above Bank is con». THE

duoted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application.

INTEREST on deposita is allowed on the Minimum Monthly Balances at 34 per cant

per annum,

Depositors may transfer at their option balanco $100 or more to the Hongzong anD SHANGHAI BANE to be placed on FIXED DEPOST at 4 per cent. per SARDI,

For the HoreKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager

Hoaglag, 1st July, 1911

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF

INDIA, LIMITED

AUTHORISED CAPITAL...

SUBSCRIBOD

PAID UF

Respava FUND

桜

M

HEAD OFFIORI

... #1.500.000

1,125,000

40, Threadusedia Stromt

Bombay.

Cainutta

Bowrab

Delhi,

Madras,

Barsoti.

Ratu on Columb

LONDON, E.C

BRANCHER:

Bandy, Galle Singapor

562,000

415,000

PADSEg. Kota Bahru ka

Kuala

Bony Ko

Sharpie

AGENTS IN JAPAN

ars JARDINÉ, MATHESON/

BANEREY

BANK OF ENGLAND, LONDON JOINT. Brock Bank'-LO Every description of Banking and Ex vana + Ansipes, transacted, Stooka, and bares bought and sold on account of Constituents Letters of Credit granted on Agents and Correspondents all over the world.

INTEREST allowed on Curran! Accounts

2 per cent, per annum on Daily Balano and or Fixed Deposits at rates which may scertained on application.

A. E. JINTON, Mabogor.

Hongkong, 20th Mar, 1913.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1853

HEAD' OFFICE--LONDON. ·

PAID UP CAPITAL

RESERVE FUND... RE:MEVE

...£1,200,000

M

Г

.. £1,700,000

OF

...£1,200,000

LIABILIZT

PROPRIETORS...

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Genaral Banking business transnoted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened ARG FIXED DEPOSITS received for your or shorter periods st rates which will be quoted on application.

A. 8. HEWETT,

Acting Maunger. Hongkong. 14th April. 1913.

1.35

INTERNATIONAL BANKING

CORPORATION.

HEAD OFFICE: 60, Wall Stroot, New York LONDON OFFIOn: 36, Bishopagaca, B.C.

Colon

BRANCHES :-

Bombay

Kube

Calcutta

Manila

Canton

Mexico

Cebu

PANAMS

Peking

San Franciscs

Shanghai

Yokohama

$7,060,000

Empire

Hongkong

Hankow

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS

equal £1,450,000 EVERY DESCRIPTION UF BANKING

BUSINESS transacted, CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the urnal

terma

motor. A vessel of 8,000 tons is cleaned Tacoma, left Manila for this port on the Faung, from Calcutta, is due in Hoog-Aufbered Capital Fl. 15,500,000 (£1.250,000) | DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fired for one year

in six or seven hours,

MODERNIZED AUCTIONING.

1st June, and is expected to be here on the 4th June, a.m.

The IG.M. str. Derfinger carrying the German Mails with dates from Berlin The electrical auction is one of the 14th May, has left Colombo on 31st May latest innovations. It appears that weekly sales of eggs at auction are an old and may be expected here on or about custom at certain market places in Hol-11th June. land, and the plan has beer evolved of condecting these sales quietly and ex. editiously by a novel registerine of hids, Each posible boyer is assigned to a numbered seat. The auctioneer or seller h before him a dial around which is a rixing scale of all posible prices, and Inrre board connected with electrical nush-button at the seats show the anme number. The anality and weight of the waal lot of 9.500 ears baring heen The are tioneer slowly turns the hand around the

On Sale at the " DAILY PRESS" Cfles or anounced, the bida berin. Local Booksellers

SHENAN FRENCH REMEDY, Ba Tra Mou dading THERAPION. REP

BLOOD POISON, ZIDNEY, VLADUER. URINARY DIST.ASES, DISCHARGER, WEAKNESS. PILIS, SENDS'TASF ADDRESS EXVELOPE FOR FREE SOKLET TO DR, Le Clerc, JE. CO. HAVERSTOCK RAMPSTEAD, LONDON FAG PARIS DEVOTE HUA CAZURILIONEA GURE NEW YORK BERTI 90. TEINMAN ST. FOR (Ou) TAINSWDRA FE (TASTEL FASIZORNO, TOKI * TAKF

THERAPION

1

bong 10th June.

"aid op Capital F. 14,905,350 (£1.242,112 FL. 5,022.161.27 (£418.513 Faksang from Calcutta, is due in Hong-tecerve Fund

kong sth June..

HEAD PRICE : - AMSTERDAM. HEAD AGENCY: BATAVIA.

Laing, from Calcutta, is due in Hong.

kong 13th June.

home, from Shanghai, is due in

Hongkong 5th June,

Loongsang, from Manila, is due in

Hongkong 3rd June.

SHIRE LINE. LIMITED.

Monmouthshire, from London, is due in

Hongkong 17th June, Tarnogue from Portland, is due in

Fongkong 19th June.

Vertalin from London, is due in Hong.

kong 20th June.

THE INDIAN MAFE.

LONDON FANKFPS: THE WILIAMS TEACONS BANK. Swiss BaxKVEREIN. BRANCHES A PAGENTS all over the World,

et 4 per cent, per annum, or for shorter periods, al rates which may be aster. fained on ipplication.

BİLLA NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED TELEGRAPHIC REMIT MAIL And

TANCES made. LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted on all the principal cities in the World. THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are available all over the World.

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT

iserned.

THE BANK ránene'a orery dene iption of Benkive and Fabange bevis sas, receive"MOD"" | PURCHASE and SALE of Stocks an

Current Are unta: the rate of 2 per cent per |

Shares effected. apow on Finils Palanca, Bufen Fized TRAVELLERS' CHECKS sold and duke

Manager.

LASTINGTON 75 7dmahiri, from New York, is due in Dei ca le stortened in plication,

KE THAT TRADE MARKED WORD "THEZAPIN

ROYI-SZAKPAFFIZED TO ALL DEPOINE PACELTS-

12

Hongkong 20th June.

GEORGE BOUG,

Itol. f Rangoon, is due in Hongkong

11th Jupe.

A VERMEY, Merager, No. 8. T'es Vienz Riad Central. Hongkong, id April, 1913.

(21

9. Queen' Road,

Hongkong, 2nd November, 1912.

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