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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

THE FINGER PRINT

SYSTEM.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY AUGUST 3 1911.

RECORD HEAT.

The most intense heatwave that The following is the balance

The efficacy of the linger prints been known in Amerina for n shoot and rovonuo account of the Indo-China Steam Navigation system and the success which has generation has caused more than Co., Ltd., at 31st-Decomber, 1910. ationded its introduction into the 50 deaths. In New York alone

Liabilities.

To Abato Capit-1--- Authorised 21,200,000 divided into 120,000 0% cumulative prefer- res ordinary alarus, and 120,00 deferred ordinary shares of 25 cach

Subscribed and paid up. 49,583 comand Livo prefer»,

fed onlinury............ .................. £217,9940 00 19,689 deferred ordinary

£217,316 0 0

To fest morigagrideboa-

fuck!--

-195,890

Settlement by the Municipal 100 fatalities are reported,

The highest tomperatures ro corded in England up to 6 p.m.

d. Police was again demonstrated atj

the Mixed Court, Shanghai.

001

g.

THEEARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Sharpest, Since 1906.

San Francisco, July 1st.-Two earthquake shocks, the honviest since the big shake of 1900, and separated by only a few seconds, jarrod the central portion of Pag. California and Western Novado.

Prepaid Advertisements.

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Intimations

MANCHURIA RAILWAY

SOUTH

70 to day. The first sharp shock, WANTED for Singing pmotico, SHORTEST &

As long ago 8 November 28, were: 1910, information was laid that a

| London (City),83 | Sunthon barglar, had broken into the house Scarborough Mulvorn.........70

Houncouth Bustin... Dover -7

, Young Ellen Terrace and made Hunktaktos...

off with electric fittings to the Clesthorpes

official forecast,

Rocin with Piano for half an hour daily before 8 a'alock .. Stati torme-8. L. II, c/o Thi “ Hong- kong Telegraph."

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LET IMMEDIATELY.—A well

Furnished. Bedroom suitable for a hacholor at very moderate, ternis Apply "ENGLISH," 帅 "Hong, kong Telegraph."

QUICKEST ROUTE

BETWEEN

THE FAR EAST & EUROPE,

via DAIREN. SUMMER KOHEDULE.

(Effective from May 1, 1911

THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composol of [3280coolicutly equipped Slurping, Dining and 1st Class Cars, is operated botwora Dairen and Changchun in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains and with Dairen-Shanghai Direct Steer Service by the 9.9, "Kobe Maru" and "Balkis.M«ru” (oach 2,877 tons) sa lollows :-

NORTH BOUND.

experienced at approximately 2.01 o'clock, was followed witkin a fow seconds by one of similar intensity, value of $150. At the first blush Weymouth......79 | Harrogate oach lasting about five seconds. TO it would oppoor that there was not

Only ono fatality is recorded in Only trivial duange las boen ro- a cluo left behind to identify connection with the heat wave inported from any section, but in the unwelcome visitor, but a mi- England, a man dying in the San Francisco and other cities in nute inspection of an electric bulb

street at Worthing, Sussex.

the affected area panic soized. showed clearly the imprint of a

Thero is no sign of any break upon crowds in stores and ro- thumb and first lingor. The bulb,'

in the weather hero. "Fine, staurants, and there

sity of Washington show that the was taken charge of by Sergeant

warm weather continuing" is the poll-mell rush from the large San Francisco began to manifest earth shooke in the direction of Welch, who made the discovery,

buildings Uno prouliar fen themselves ut 2 o'clock, increas 00 and was lodged at the Identifica- |

tion Office. Subsequently phe-

ture of the earthquake was that ing in violence until 2.10, whom tographs of tho print wero tuken.

it did not appear to follow the old they gradually diminished. At Months passed, and although evory Exhausted Nation's Sufferings has been the playground of trem-

"fault" in the earth's crust, which 2.30 the needlo was burely quiver-

ing. native prisoner's thumb and Now York has been converted

blers in the past, but extended recorded, the first one, lasting Three principal shocks wore linger prints were taken, the bur- tomporarily into a city of pyjami.

from seacoastward to the Sierras, three minutes, being the most glar, particularly wanted, could jelad millions, who may be seen not be found.. On the 9th instant, folling distressfully at every win. including hitherto exempt moun-sovero. The north and south however, a native was arrested dow and balcony in night attire tain areas. It was felt to the movement was the greater, the ........ 14,955 15 and charged with the theft of a vainly seeking relief from the in-northward of Sacramento valley, east and west movement being

upparently insignificant. brass door handle value $2 from tolerable heat which has aflicted southward as far as Fresno, and to The record will not be ramovod the east at Carson and Reno, from the drum until noon to

First issue of £315,000 Sabre riked mal issu d......206,175 Also £22,000 issued and

lodged with Binkors as

security for temporary las as may be roquî rel. To baliace of underwrit-

ing Account ..........11,200 04 Toundry clitors in

London and Cons...... 21,713 188 2,000 08

To loans...

To deposits

To balance fem revenue

avtožn........ £45,436' 158

To less interim dividend desiarul 29th Novou- ber 1910. 47,196-7 0

Note

Contingent liability for rumalatis preferroi dividend for 1908, 1909 and 1910 amounts lo £37,191 10 0

Assets.

By støvnship, bulks, ferry DOALS &A, £854,001,138 Les depreciation written aff for this year marokkan ..........................235,961 199

By voals unk, provision on board shijes and in g down ***

By offico fomiture C........ By sundry debtors in Lau- donand China, agents*

By earl in Louden nad

China

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By deposit at short notive

................ 43,700⋅ð í

By depsit in names of

27988

500 DEAD IN AMERICA.

27 North Noochow Rond and, on this comitry for five days.

with those found on the electrio| bulb. This led the Polico to

history.

Some slight damago was

centre of the disturbance. Max: flipkoo, who is in charge of the from a superficial oxamination of Observatory, said that judging die record the earthquako" was not unusually sovore.

bis fingor prints being taken, The heat wave, which the chief Nevada, the latter place experi-morrow, and until this is done it they were found to be identical of the Weather Bareas at Washing the heaviest shock in its will be impossible to locate the

ington describes as more oxtensive uke futter inquiries shout and more intense than any record the accused and subsequently led by meteorological scienco dur the latter admitted many burging tho‘present generation has al faries an! Jelonies and pointed randy caused more than 500 doat out the places from where he land obtained booty. Altogether he 371, hud secured goods to the value of

nearly $100.

€

s. d.

908,636 1| 1

the trustees for debou- ture holders 243,000 0 0

By expense of debeature isene.... 411,980 160 Less writtenof£3,000 0 8°

9,870 189 20 11

11,980 160

ven

Revenue Account for Year ending

31st December, 1910.

To general charge- and tologmm in Loralon mul China, including diru:ters'; int tous and auditors' fees...... To genetul intero... To debenture interest Exponzos of 'delanture issue, amount written

ť

Those facts were narrated to the magistrates and oularged photo graphs of the finger prints wore produced for inspection.

Tho nensed was committed to prison for eighteen months.-N. C. D. News."

aviation in the Sørvices:—

done to buildings in San Fran- cisco. Heavy stones in the cornice of the Mechanics' Bank building were moved slightly

cracks were made in several lorge THE SAFETY MATCH. the country cast of the Mist of alignment; superficial sissippi Valley. Every hour adds office building; cornices of the its number to lie victims. Ten

new post-office building were. deaths from heat were reported in disarranged, and minor damage New York, making a total for the was done to the interior walls of metropolis alone "of 100, not to niention the innumerable vases of prostration which have reduced doctors and nurses to the last Stugos of exhaustion,

The grant of a Civil List pon- sion of £50 annually to the daugh

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a number of other buildings, ter of the late Dr. Goorgo Gore,| * Russian Train Titna is 23 minutos abord of the 3.51.R. Timo. For instance,

Within a few seconds after the F.R.S., L.L.D., recalia an'interest-

werd

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the wealth that ho created.

6 pan, by the former is 5.87 pan, by the latter. Supplacutary Chargon on DAIREN-QUANGCHUN Servios.

TICKET AGENCIES-The Company's railway and stormir tlokala" nia". btainable at all the Agencies of the international Sloping Car & Express Praias Co., the Nippon Yuson Kaisha, Shanghai, Mesari. Thos. Cook & Bot, nd Reisebaroan der Hamburg-Amerika Linis.

RAILWAY HOTELS-Yamato Horzu (Tel. Add.; " Yamato ") al Dairen, Port Arthur, Mukden, Faskus and Changchun, all under the Com-

any's management.

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY

DAIREN.

FUSHUN

COAL

THE BEST STEAMING. COAL IN THE FAR EAST.

Output 3,500 tons per day. Fresh stocks always on hand at Dairon, Newhwang and Tientsin Depow also at Chefoo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore and Penang.

MINING DEPARTMENT,

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SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANÝ,

DIREN.

Ald. "Meuteten." "A. B. G. 5th. Ed., A. 1. & Liber's

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first shock many down town building and romantic personality, ofxrnnas EXTRA FREY3.00 SLEEPING DAR Supplement...... Y5.00 ings were depopulated in a wild the great scientific awakening of

Telophonic In Chicago sixty-four people ensh to the streets.

the mid-Victorian om.

Dr. Gore, who had devoted MR. BARBER'S GIFT TO umbed to the heat, in Philand telographic services

Jolphia twenty-nine. Similar talosuspended for some minutes be- THE SERVICES. of mortality are published from a cause of the operators deserting most of his long life to scientific score of towns. The streets are their keys. Herbert Hadley, rosearch, diod two years ago at lodging-house inmate, foll dead the age of eighty-two, leaving a The following are descriptions littored with exhausted horses. balanco, freigins &...116,659 is 8 of the four Valkyrie military The official thermomoter off fright, and some cases

monoplanos which Mr. 11. Barber the Now York Weathor Do hysteria or of cuts or bruises fortune of somo, £6,000. It is ba partmont registers only 93 deg, suffered in the semi-panio were cause he left the bulk of his ...... 18,918 119 as prunted to the Govern but as the thermometer is situattroated at the emergency and savinga to the Royal Society and } Sul. Add. “Mintots." Gode1: A.B.O. 6th, Ed. A. L. & Lliber's

ment witha view. to encouraging es on the Alpine heights of a other hospitals,

the Royal Institution, to be de- Santa Rosa, which suffered a voted to the furthering of original skyscraper, it gives only a faint 1. Fitted with 30 h.p. tireen inlication of the sufferings of the greater disaster in proportion to scientific research, that ongino. Carries mo posson. Puhumore of 100 deg. Many the catastrophe of 1006, scarcely daughter needs the pension that sad

populace, which is working in an its size than did San Francisco in 6,700 00 Speed 55 miles per hour. Built establishments have tomporarily felt to-day's shock, further indi has now been granted.

His small fortune represent- especially strong, and particularly suspondod operations and allowed eating that the seismic disturb

a very small part of adopted for the use of beginners, their clerks and other employees ance did not follow the lines of d

2. To carry pilot and passenger alleviate their condition at the

to remain at home, or attempt to ho old “fault." for two light passengers). Fitiod seashore. Trains, however, are feror in 1906, roporto that the

San Jose, another heavy suf- His daughter's emall pension with 60-80 h.p. Groen engine, are unconfortable than offices, shock to-day was the sharpost or represents the return of but Agenta: MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD

a fraction of tho benefits Speed 40-50 miles per hour, and this morning, after a short perienced since that time, but Especially suitable for pupil pas-congestion of traffic on the under that it did no serious damage, which the nation derived from ground railway, many passengers Stockton and Frosne, in the San his inbours. Upon the chemical songer work.

fainted, and had to be lifted on Joaquin valley, wore early fright discoveries which resulted from 3. To carry ono porson. Latest to the platform.

oned by the jarring, but there, design of this type. Fitted with

The temperature is falling as in Sacramento, where the States patient investigations and ex- the Mississippi Valley lices were deserted in a trice as based the safety inatch. Upon periments with phosphorus are 40-50 h.p. Green engine. Speed and

Weather Bureau is buoying the result of the shake, the damage is researches in electro-met- 6,219 1145 miles per hour. 1853 7 1 4. Latest passenger-carrying hopes of an exhausted nation with to buildings was trifling. 11,810 type. Built to carry a 50 hprobably reach the Atlantic son scarcely felt, but in Carson it was

the promise that a cool wave will In Reno, Nevada, the shock was lurgy are based nickel-plating und the electro deposition of other Gnome engine. Speed 50-66

board. miles per hour.

severe. The federal court was in metals. If he had received the session in the Nevada capital, and fraction of a percentage of the judge, jury and attorneys rushed profits derived from the com- mercial uses to which his scientific post-haste to the streets.

At the Santa Clara College have been many times a mil- discoveries were applied he would Suport horsemanship by the observatory, both reels were them to rise from or descend upon Maharajah Sindhia of Ciwalior thrown off the seismographs.

lionairo.

Blacksmith to Scientist. The Valkyrie aeroplanes are averted à serious accident at a They were immediately replaced,

But his concern was with pure 6,879 192 not only entirely British-built, gymkhan at Hurlingham. He but the records of the disturbance

but are of distinctive British in was tent-pegging when owing to will be incomplete because of this. science, and he was content to The main time clock at the ob make discoveries out of which tion of debenture)...... 376 50vention and design, and differ! his turban elipping he lost control servatory of the University of inventors and To balance transferred to

manufacturora California was stopped, for the gained huge fortunes, balanes shout......... 35.486 15 8 types of aeroplanes. Mr. Bar- of his horse.

bor's latest Valkyrie. type of It dusled for a fence forty yards first time since the great quako GeorgeGore was born in Bristol, £116,407 15 7 military monoplane has the engine away as if to leap the barrier be of five years ago.

the son of a working man, in 1820. The deep booming reverbera He had no education beyond and propellor behind the pilot, hind which mon and women were thus securing an unobstructed sitting eight deep. Realising the tion which usually marks disturb reading and writing, for there was view. The under-carriage per-peril to their lives the Maharajahances of a widespread character none available. He left school at mits the machine to descond safe-nimbly dismounted, though the accompanied the first tremor. the age of thirteen and worked as In San Francisco the groaning an errand boy till ho apprenticed ly upon extremely rough ground. horse was at full gallop, und | The machine is very light, though throwing all his weight on to the and creaking of the strained stool himself to a blacksmith, and as a strong, and can be folded up in bridle brought the animal up on structures in the downtown dis blacksmith he earned his living as

a larger part in a young man. afow minutes for transports-its hannobes within a yard and atriot played

But the wonders tion by road. It is already half of the danger.

frightening the populace than did | of science fascinated him. He 81,852 5 boll known for its longitudinal Great cheering and clapping of the tremors.

educated himself. As a young Word was received by the local taan he settled in Biriningham, stability, and has frequently been handa followed. Inter Lord ad- flown for considerable distances dington, in prosenting to his Weather Bureau from the sub-where in lustrial development do with the pilot's hand's off the cou-Highness a gold enp as captain station at Mount Tamalpais, 2,000manded scientific knowledge, and trols nul above his lead-once of Indian team, complimented the feet above the ses, to the effect devoted himself to rescarchi. for six minutes, during which Maharajah on his superb horse that the sharpest shuck had boon

Typefunding, dyving, chemi- folt there since the disaster of cal bleaching, electro plating, 4. three comploto circuits were 40-manship. complished.

The Maharajah, who is thirty-1906. The mountain is close to hundred trades benefitted by his Mr. Barber has also offered to five roars of age, is an extra the "fault," which opened during discoveries. To the end of his the Government his services as a A.D.C. to the King. He served tho 1006 quako.

life he wentonoxperimenting, and designer, constructor, and pilot ne major-general at the rollol of Recorded at Seattle. made a modost, fortune but every- | as far as his time permits."The Peking, 1901, when he provided Seattle, July 1st-Tlie records body who strikes a matoti does SO Times."

la hospital ship at his own coul, of the seismograph at the Univers, with his lielp.

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To depreciation acroup]——— On ́stowship, d'................ .........£33,864 19 2 On office furaltára....... vroman £15 90

To premiuma on ralemp.

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By balance brought far

8,000 m

0

ward from 1909......... 7.537 By natcurning of sterundts for the your, including adjustment of compuls-- sion and charges made by the general mana- gers .......

Two of the machines are parti- feularly adapted for naval pur- INDIAN PRINCE'S FEAT.

poses, being fitted with combina. tion floats and wheels to allow

By sont transferred from underwriting - outint......

...........20,000 & 0

By transfer four

£116,407 187

W. Koswick, Director. H. Beazley, Director.

The report of the Board of Ditostore was published on page Gin our issue of Taesday,

oither land or water.

considerably

from all other

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