1926-05-08 — Page 3

Page

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL " AGENCY,

LTD.

Tel. Central 238.

X, Queen's Buildings.

BOLE AGENTS FOR

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 1926

BELL'S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD..

"Vistor

MANUFACTURERS OF

':

nd

Metallio." "Dagger." "Quadruple

Reefer" Packings.

Bell's Asbestos Compositions.

*Salamander” Engine & Cylinder Oils.'

"Salamanderite Jointing."

ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE.

THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST."

MARINE RUFE

TRANSMISSION

OF POWER ROPE

CABLE LAID

HAWSERS.

WELL DRILLING

CABLES

ESTABLISHED 1854

RUPES OF ALL SIZES FOR ALL PURPOSES

YNCHAUST

ROPE

FACTORY

MANILA

MADE FROM PURE MANILA

HEMP

MANUFACTURED

BY THE MOST MODERN MACHINERY.'

STOCKS ON HAND, OF ALL SIZES) ENQUIRIES SOLICITED!.

FACTORIES:-MANILA, P.I.

HONGKONG OFFICE:

KING'S BUILDING.

TELEPHONE

CENTRAL 3165.

A.F.B..

UST ARRIVED Shipment of High-Class HOLLAND CIGARS, Attractively

Jacked okertu Es Bond, orpecials suitable in frits, An Bresllent Opportunity

for Bhips, etc., to obtain at Half Retail Price. Wholesale Price Only for Not Less Than Five Boxes each of Twenty-five.

TEL. 4830.

126]

MONTGOMERY, OLLERTON & Co.,

10. Des Voeux Rond Central.

THE NAVY'S CHOICE

Coates

ORIGINAD

PLYMOUTH GIN

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

410

A NEW WAY OF COOKING

0

Which is Better-Simpler-Cleaner.

42

¡

GAS

is the modern

way of

cooking: it is more reli- able, economical,

Сод

a

venient, cleaner: is labour-saver, and is easily regulated.

STOVES

are many and good, but now a new invention has arrived, which is some- thing different, and is a joy to every householder.

Che Smoothtop Gas Range

An Innovation in Gas Stoves.

Every householder should enquire for a pamphlet giving full particulars. It is of great interest to the Lady with the large household, and to the Bachelor in the Flat,

It

means Better Cooking at Lower Prices."

THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS Co., Ltd.

Showrooms: West Point. Tel. C. 47. 18, Des Voeux Road Central Tel C. 4705

[A.P.]

LATE MR. A. RED.

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

·CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY.

The funeral "oft Mr. A. Reid," of the Police Department, whose death was re: Bangkong Baak............. ported in the Daily Press, yesterday took

Carlared Bank............ place at Happy Valley Cemetery last evening. the Rev. J. Kirk Maconnchie conducting burial service.

1)

D

Lazdur.

MAY 7TH, 1996. $1,095/1,10&.

Marcantile Haut, 1 & 30 nom.

"

Do P.&O. Ba

Bak East Ara Bans Canton Ingarice. Chuts Underwriters

U.......

Bum.

19: non. .. nom..

..35 buy.

$1. buy.

144 nom.

988; bay, 190 moh, 291

U&M. Sunboat Hongkong Tugs........ Ladu-t'hiss (Free).

(Def.)

The coffin draped, with the Union Jack. was drawn by Sergeants of the Hong-North Uhma Inanrance kong Police Force.

Union Insurance Amongst those presen; were Mrs. Beid. | Yangtze Insurance ...............

Uhins Fire Insurance the widow, as chief mourner, the Hon. Hongkong Fire Lusurance E. C. D. Wolfe, Captain Superintendent Dougines of Police, Mr. T. H. King, D.CL, Captain Bloxham, AS. P., Chief Inspec tors and P. Grant, Sub-Inspectors Goble. Dorrington. Wilson, Clarke, Inelellon, Reynolds, Alexander, Sunt. Waterboati H. T. Brooks. Supt. Saunders, Supt. Sugar

Urontal Navigatio Moss, Messrs. J. Thompson. Gordon | Malabo sugars Leask. J. Ross, C. Earnshaw, Principal

Hanging Warder Daniels, Chief Warder McLeod. The sergeants of the Hongkong Police Force, and many others.

Shell Transports FIN

شهسو

Langkata (combined)

LO. (angle)..... Shangha Explorations... Shanghai Löwns wensen | Rauba

Tronoh Minse

Floral wreaths were received from the the widow, as chief mourner, the Hon. Mr.

Ural Caspians Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.S.P., Captain H. H.K. & K, Whari..... Bloxham, A.S.P., Mr. D. Burlingham,&

*W. Ducks.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Knight, Inspector and...

New

Hongkong Lands

497) bay. 170 bay. $351

bay.

...to noi.

$38. 2014.

.87,6 nom.

4534 bay.

#13 nom.

$25 psl.

ss bar. .51% buy. „kaj- buy. TL, 241 bay.

.Th. Izq bay.

Ta se nam.

JL. 7 HOM

./-nom.

$125 buy. $59

T

130 bay.

11. 5.00 buy.

Ta Tvé bu

..$10 bay, 10.00's.

•$4 al

Hongkong Realtys (c.p.)...; buy. H.A. Tartonais (1.p.)..... Humphreys Hatates, Pens Printa Building...

Bural Lands

wo Cottons Orientals

$15+ nom.

$lu nom. "nom.

T. 10.35 bay. Shanghai Cottons (eld)...The bug buy.

Ts, 3 bay.

Do. (new)....... 27 Day... ACEOUTS.

Cantus Joey Cements (comburu}

13. (oidy Lo.

China Basat Uhins Lights (combined) .........

10. Djo.

(New)

111 com.

..37 nom.

#15) nom.

did som

buy.

„li nom.

$5.80 buy.

... kom. ...SZU DOM.

$10 nom.. Soo bay,, 67 2014.

25 eta. Bom.

$10 Be

lalu sel.

ra MeWalter, Sham Shui Po, Mr. Shanghai and Mrs. J. S. Dick, Mr. and Mrs. W. Glendinning. Mr. and Mrs. T. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hollands, Mr. W. Gerard. A P. and Mrs. Gerrard, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. H: E. Strange. Mr. and Mrs. Goble, Mr. and Mrs. W. Shannon. Inspector and Mrs. McDonald, Sub-Inspector and Mrs. Watt, Mr. and Mrs. G. Watt. M. and Mrs. AV. F. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Piacott, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Taylor, Mrs. P. Angus and family Sub China Providents Inspector and Mrs, W. Wilson, Mr. and Constructions Mrs. E. Field and family, Inspector and Der A Wing (Lp.)

Dairy Farms

Mrs. A. R. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hongkong Electnes......

Macao Electrics Bloor. Inspector and Mrs. J. Ogg. Mr.

h.A. Devalopmenta .................... and Mr. A. H. Elston, Mr. A. H... Bopes tombined) Noonan (Victoria. Gaol) Sergeant Me-

Do. (014) Watter, Messrs. Beach and Harrison, J. Hongkong Tramways

(Low)

I. "Roan, W. S. Cuff, P. J, Condon. Captain R. J. Gillespie, Inspector P. Grant, J. Grant, A. Nicholl. C. Eara- shaw. Sergeants Mess (Central Station), P. S. Mess (Central); L'S: Mess (CORES.

Deiled ZabesTON tral), Chinese Staff (Headquarters), Watsons (old) Sergeants Mess No. 2 Station, Sergeants Singapore Tractions

Wm. Powell

Hess No. 7 Station, Sergeants Mess Hungbom Station, Sergeants Mess, Sham Shui Po, Inspectors and Crown Ser- geants. Yaumati Station; Lance Ser geants Mess, Yaumati Station; Quarry RUBBER DIVIDENDS. Bay Station, Tai O Station, Officers Mess, Victoria Gaal: Officers Mess, Lai

LATEST SHARE QUOTATIONS.

Chi Kox Prison; European Revenue

Messrs. Carroll Bros. writes:-The Officers. Officers of the Fire Brigade, Amalgamated Malays have only declared Hongkong Football Association, Royal a 10 per cent. interim and not 15 per cent is advised yesterday. This makes Naval Yard Police, E.A.S.M.A, War-20 per cent. to date. Further dividends ahipful Master. Office Bearers and Bre declared are:- thren of Lodge No. 178 St. Davids, Dundee.

BRAIN MESSAGES BY WIRELESS. PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATE RECORDS.

By experimenting with the apparatus used in the reception of wireless, "Dr. E. D. Adrina, F.R.S.; of Cambridge Uni- versity, has evolved an instrument which makes it possible to record the messages that travel along the nerve, centres to the brain..

ہیں

The instrument has three valves, an amplifier which magnifies the nerve mes sages, 2.000 times, and a photographic plate The valves receive the messages as they would receive wireless waves, The nerve messages are recorded on the photographic plate in the form of dots

Laus Crawforda. Mackintosha.

Peak Trama (old)

Do.

ફરતા.

..$1.60 nom.

NOID.

$104 tel

...Sliş buy.

(new)...

dinorum ....

$20 com $12 buy.

„STU, Mojah,

8 sal

bay-buyers; sel-sellers; ss-salės į

nom-zominal.

Hamiltons, to per cent, interim. Sandyside, 15 per cent. interim, mak

ing 45 per cent to date.

We also append latest quotations:- Amalgamated Malays, 24.80 sales. Connemaras, $2.70 sales. Lunas, 84.30 sales ex dividend. Telik Ansons, $15.00 sales.

HAVE WHALES TWO WIVES? BRITISH MISSION TO FIND OUT.

To see whether, whales have two wives. is one of the missions of the specially constructed steamer William Scoresby. which is being fitted out. at Hull for the Crown Agent. When completed, it will Discorrrys which is now in the Antarctic. set off to join Capt. Scott's old ship and dashes.

Explaining the discovery to a Daily In a laboratory in the ship scientists Jail reporter, Dr. Adrian said: " will arrange their experiments to dis If we touch the skin or prick it with cover whether whales are polygamous, a pin each nerve fibre which is stimu- the birth-rate of whales, their expecta lated sends a message to the brain in tion of life, how far they wander from the form of a series of very small home, and their diet.. electric oscillations called nerve im pulses.

The answers will be put together with a view to steps to stop the rapid diminu- tion of the number of whales and the threatened extinction of the species..

'IDENTITY DISCE.

The impulses in each are so small that until the advent of wireless it was impossible to detect them, although we knew what they were like from other lines of work. The valve amplifier has be fired painlessly into the blubber. of From an instrument in the ship will made it possible to magnify several every whale seen a small dart, to which thousand times, and the impulses can

be recorded by a special instrument will be attached a silver-plated identifi. called a capillary electrometer, which cation diac.....

traces the electric changes on a photo these dises will then be asked to forward Fishermen catching, whales bearing. graphic plate.

In this way we can get a fairly ne full particulars to the Crown Agent. By curate picture of the message which comparison and the data taken when the tells our brain that something is touch-dise was fixed it is hoped to learn a great ing us, that our árm is moving, or that deal about the habits of whales. we have toothache.

The expendition will last about two

MESSAGES TO FROGS

不

Dr. Adrian has already recorded the messages sent to the brains of frogs when their muscles are in play and when pres sure is made on the skin. These mes Bages, said Dr. Adrian, are fairly sim ple, but it may be a long time before we can know what happens to them when they reach the brain.

It had already been possible to record the impressions of a number of fibres at once, but Dr. Adrian, with his new instrument, can record the message sent by one fibra.

and a half years, during which the ships will investigate, uncharted sens.

TED HER FRETÜK' HIERDI

*** Mo, 2 foc Madag Cidarth, - Za f'kr Binod & äktar

THERAPION NO. THERAPION NO. 2 THERAPION No. 8

LIKANER & OUKKORTS, VEROS MU'MIGATI, DA DE. EXCHAN Mesa Co., Enrumok, KERK.25, London, pa Mai Yan10, Massar Du Man Zika Qurt, in in * PRIT STREET, HAR PHASES.

UBEN CINEMA

QUE

SUPER

TO-DAY ONLY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15. & 9.15

METRO GOLDWYN

...PRESENTS

AILEEN PRINGLE AND JOHN GILBERT

IN

66 HIS HOUR

STORY AND PRODUCTION

ELINOR GLYN

AUTHOR OF

"THREE WEEKS” AND “

SIX DAYS."

THE STAR

TO-DAY ONLY At 5.30

RICHARD BARTHELMESS

IN

"THE SEVENTH DAY”

A DEEP SEA ROMANCE.

可

AT 9.15

THE MOSCOW STATE BALLET

PRESENTS

A HOLIDAY IN SEVILLE A SPANISH BALLET

FROM

DON QUIXOTE

POPULAR PRICES:-83, $2 and $1.. BOOKING. AT THE STAR AND MOUTRIE'S.

THE WORLD

TO-DAY & 5.15 & 9.15

MAJORIE DAW

IN

GAMBLING WIVEŚ.”

Flit

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

WHITSUNTIDE EVE

EMPIRE CELEBRATIONW

on Saturday, 22nd May, , 1926.

DINNER $4 per head

(FANCY OR EVENING DRESS OPTIONAL)

Special Bus to the Peak Hotel-12,15 a‚m, Late Bus to the Hongkong Hotel-12.30 a.m.

TABLES FOR ABOVE MAY NOW BE BOOKED AT THE HONGKONG or REPULSE BAY HOTELS.

Telephones: C. 2581

C. 776

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.