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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel, Central 336,

SOLE AGENTS FOR

3, Queen's Buildings,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 1710,

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THE SMOKE NUISANCE

AT HOME.

The House of Commons, passes the Smoke- Abatement Bill to restrict the emission of Smoke from Chimneys,

THE SMOKE NUISANCE. IN HONGKONG

can be restricted without a Bill and with

voluntary co-operation

only,

INSTALL AND USE GAS.

Reduce your bills for fuel and Help keep the atmosphere clean.

Gas-using appliances for all purposes, femonstrations and full particulars at the

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AN AMERICAN AT THE

COURT.

VIVID IMPRESSIONS OF AN OVERSEAS DEBUTANTE

MAGNIFICENT GOWNS.

I've never been so impressed 'in all my life. How do they do it all without any stops?

RUBBER MARKET,

LOCAL SALES.

Messrs. Carroll Bros, report the follow ing sales of Straits Rubbar abates 1-

"Allenbya .... Ayer Panas Balgownies

Glanealys

Jimahs.....

Mentakabane

Pajams

-19:00

14,00

5.90

3.00

TO

0.80

14.00

The following dividends have been de

Alor Gajahs: 20 per cent, interim.. Ayer Panas: 10 per cent intarim,”

It was thus, in eager breathless senclared tences, that an American débutante sum med up her impressions of the previous night's Court at Buckingham Palace

Her eyes sparkled as she recalled the excitements of the evening.

We just arrived as if it were for an ordinary party, only, of course, it was much more gorgeous, and after that there wasn't a hitch for a single, instant. I was going to be impressed, but it was all far, far beyond anything I had expected

IN THE THRANK BOOX,' "We came early sad so I had a seat in the Trone Room all the time, and could watch the guests coming in.

"One thing struck me the jewels. We have some beautiful gems at home, but nothing could be finer than some of the jewels I saw last night, she said. About half a dozen women seemed to be covered with jewela from head to foot.

wore white "Ever so many women dresses, like their daughters. But there was colour too, lots of it, and feather fans and bouquets.

•

The great thrill came, of course, when I was presented. I would hardly breathe. But I think I did my curtsey quite correctly. I'd seen so many people, before me that I didn't really feel

-fiervous.

"Oh! And after it was all over there was the supper. I won't forget that either. It was delicious,"

Fashions of the moment are well adapt- and ed to a gorgeous State function. Rich fabrics, glittering embroideries, jewel trimming are more impressive when assembled in the form of a modern gown, than the plainer silks and aatine or even brocades of Edwardian times.

A woman with several attendances at Court to her credit expressed the view that the gowns this season are-more magnificent than any she remembered on a previous occasion.

DARWIN OF BOTANY."

DO PLANTS FALL IN LOVE!

making 20 per cent, to date, Ayer, Maleks: 10 per cent.- interim,

making 30 per cent. to date.

44,240 FOR JAW INJURY.

NEGLIGENCE DURING RADIUM

TREATMENT...

The Zurich court awarded £4,210 damages to a wealthy tradesman for in-↓ juries received: during radium treatment.

A doctor whom he consulted declared" that he was suffering from cancer of the tongue, and sent him to a radium- specialist for treatment.

His mouth was so badly burned that he was unable to speak or eat, and the doctor was obliged to amputate the lower portion of the jaw in order to preserva the man's life.

The tradesman brought an action against both the specialist and the doctor for neglectful treatment. The doctor was acquitted, but the specialist was ordered to pay damages and costa.

HONGKONG "STOCK EXCHANGE. CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

JULY 1671 1996, $1,130 buy,, 1,125 ea. Doy London......£131 nom. Bongkong Bank Chartered Bank

£207 buy..

Do

U13 nom Mercantile Bank, A. & B... £30 nom." P.&O. Bank. East Asia Bank... 34 bay, Canton InsurBNICS ............DRO Chins Underwriters$180 nom.

Tl. 145 nom. North China Insurance-

....$287/990 as Union Insurance ....... Yangtze Insurance ...... 87) buy. China Fire Tarursace .... 1200 buy. Hongkong Fire Insprance. 8590 buy.

$15 bay. Douglases HK, U. & M. Steamboats...$28 bay,, hongkong Tugs...............24 20m. Indo-Chinas (Fred) Subay."

Do (Dol), Shell Transports. Star Farnes... Waterbosta China Bugars Malaban Bugarą Benguela...apan)

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Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, founder of the famous Bose Research Institute at Calentta, whose recent pronouncement that plants have a nervous system ten times as sensitive as that of man recent-n Mining Ad.. ly aroused wide interest, was entertained at lunch at the Hote! Cecil, London, by the British-Indian Union. Sir Jagadia was accompanied by Lady Bose.

Viscount Lee of Fareham, who pre- sided, in proposing the health of Sir Jagadis, said their guest had brought honour not only on himself but to his country; and, through his "country, to the Empire and to the whole of the civilised world. It had truly been said of him that he was the Darwin of botany. "I remember, when I was in Cal. cutta," proceeded Lord Lee, "Sir Jagadis told me that he had found it practically possible either to accelerate or retard the growth of a plant in such a way as to obliterate noxious insects. Take cotton- growing in Egypt, for instance. This cotton is attacked by the boll weavil, which grows to maturity when the cotton plant flowers. Now, according to Sir Jagadis Bose, if you retard or advance the flowering of the plant for a compara tively short periods few days would be sufficient-tha weevil will arrive and "find nothing doing. It will take mang years of evolutions for the maturity of the weevil and the flowering of the plant again to synchronise."

Lord Lee added that he had asked Sir Isgadis if he had considered experiment ing with plants to catch their emotion at the moment when the bee was with drawing pollen, from the male for the fertilisation of the female flower of the species, in order to discover if there was China Providents any suggestion of the plant falling in Constractions love. Sir Jagadis had told him that he Dairy Farms had been engaged on the experiment for Der A Wings some years, but that he was not yet in a Hongkong Electrics position to announce any results of the Macao Electrics. investigation. We do well," he con- HK. Bopes (combined) cluded, to honour one who has shown Do. (old) himself not only a mighty man of science, Da. - (257) but who is one of the most gifted suns Last Crawlords,

Mackintonks. India has ever produced, and who is also

Aincereturt a great citizen of our Empire." (Cheers) United Asbertos. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, in reply Watsons (ald) said that for marking great discoveries the powers of introspection and imagino Wa Powails tion were essential In order to discover the life mechanism in the interior of the tree, one had to become the tree and feel the beatings of its throbbing heart." This inner vision had, however, to be frequently tested by results of experi mentation, for otherwise it might lead to the wildest spéculation, subversive of all intellectual sanity

In founding his research institute eight years ago he hoped to revive the great traditions of ancient India. This dream of his was coming true, forsl ready the institute had the good fortune of being-regarded as an international centre of science. He called for pupils who would devote their whole life with strengthened character and determined purpose to take part in the infinite strugggle to win knowledge for its own sake and see truth-face to face...

Miss Jane Lang Baby died at Bath at the age of 106. She was born in Swansea, but had spent the greater part of her life in Bath. She was in posses sion-of all her faculties to the last.

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851 buy,, 66 sa

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