The Straits Times, 24 January 1910

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times. NO. 23.174 SINGAPORE. MONDAY. JANUARY 24. 1910. PRICE 10 CENTB.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 215 1 D. J. McCallums PERFECTION WHISKY. GALDBECK. MACGREGOR! AND COMPANY. KATZ BROS., LD. Manhattan Refrigerator AN ORNAMENTAL PIECE OF FURNITURE FOR ANY DINING ROOM. These Refrigerators are built of well-seasoned solid pine-stained dark oak, fitted with brass name plate, plated hinges, door locks and keys. The chambers are cast with white
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    • 209 1 Robinson A Co. The Sharpshooter's "Club" Rifle. ALL BRITISH MALE. 310 BORE GREENER'S -310 BORE "CLUB" RIFLE, weight about Gi lbs. Military Tangent Uarlejcorn sights to 800 yards, with Safety Bolt. Accurately sighted and well-finished. ASILUSTRATION: $35. KYNOCHS '310 BORE CARTRIDGES: $3.25 PER 100. The Improved B.S.A. Air Rifle. r
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    • 115 1 Bollinger Cfcarcpape. CAIDBFCK. MACGREGOR AND COMPANY. Proprietor: J. CARAPIET. Tiliphom No. 58. THE BEST FOOD THE BEST BAND. h ■^\iK Special k "%'*>•**■ „t au'eßt Might Dinner yf Every Saturday. The Oichestra can accept eDt'a(?( ment't tctwt n 8 and To'clock and alter 9 p m. THE PLANTERS' STORES AGENCY
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  • 72 2 The Wa Tpz Vat Po, a Chinese newspaper published in Hongkong, received a wire from Macao on the l.'kh inst., stating that the Governor of Macao has received a Chinese letter threatening to destroy the palace with dynamite. The same paper repudiates such a
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  • 850 2 Words of Wisdom from a Physician's Pen. Those who conquar Malaria conquer the tropics." is a proverb with which every resident in tropical countries is familiar. While in consequence of the onward march of scientific achievement, this disease, so depressing in its onset, so devitalising in it*
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 350 2 "HUMBER" CARS 1910 Models (Shortly Expected) In the Scottish and Irish Reliability trials this year secured the highest possible awards in their class— Efficiency Gold Medal. They also secured the Special Medal for Hill Climbing. Such a record has never before been made by any cars in the Scottish and
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    • 934 2 THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY. LIMITED. General Manager's Report for tbe Four Weeks Ending January I. The Chairman and Directors, Raub Australian Oold Mining Co. Ltd., Singapore. Gentlemen.— l beg to submit the following Mining and Milling Report for the fonr weeks ending January 1, 1010. Mines. Bi'kit Malax
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    • 109 2 Qrit MiU« 2?9 nja. Amalgam 89 ots. Sponge 87 ozj. Bui ion for 2| mouths. Ou\si> Tin «!.->.— Toun crushed 5,518 Amalgam 3,190 ozs. Retorted Oold 1,3 1 7 Bullion 1.168.8 M., Average finenens 9U.524 ADDENDA. Average yield 3.83 dwta. per ton. Cyanide 4l.{2.*> ozs. fineness 676 29.063 ozs. flneuexs
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    • 580 2 The First Over-Channel Flight (Baraques to Dover, July 25. 1909) v ';.Vjf^v V x- -5,.U ktcomt a millttoiu n lllilvry. S< '>?'',*, Nerve Strain, Despondency, Exhaustion All the world knows about the Ciic.u Channel Flight, hut it is fiom M. Hieriot liimselt we learn how much his marvellous conquest of
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  • 831 3 NAVAL EXPERT AND THE USE OF AIRSHIPS. Electric Impulse. I Mr. Lewis Nixon, the American warship builder and naval expert, who was educated at the British Naval College, at Greenwich. lin an article written for the New York I Herald, expresses I 'h ideas concerning the I u-i
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  • 149 3 Suffragettes Disguised as Orange Sellers. The visit to Liverpool of Mr. Asqaith was not allowed to pass on December 21, without a suffragette demonstration. Every precaution was taken by the police to prevent a scene when the Prime Minister arrived at the Reform Club, where he
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 507 3 Howarth Erskine, Ltd. CIVIL, MECHANICAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, IRON ft BRASS FOUNDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRIDGE BUILDERS GENERAL CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR Worthington Pump Co.'s Patent Pumps Pnlsometer Engineering Co.'s Pnlsometer Pumps Robey and Co.'b Portable Engines and Machinery Richard Hornsby and Son's Oil and Gas Plants Waygood's Lifts and Hoists Robert
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    • 60 3 A FOLLOWER OF INFLUENZA. An attack of inflnenza is often followed by a persistent cough, which to many proves a great annoyance. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been extensively used and with good success for tbe relief and care of this couch. Many cases have been cured after other well known
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    • 472 3 TEA It is because our working principle is to give satisfaction to everyone lhat it now takes more than Thirty Thousand Agents to distribute our tea in Great Britain alone. BROOK F, BOND'S TEA Sold by all respectable dealers throughout the Straits Settlements. Wholesale Agents: MESHRS. GUTHRIE CO. ■M f"FOR
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    • 675 3 iiii'^^ There is no need to .v-:-V: vijxjijjjlr use boiling water when using if Sunli(^tl I Soap 1 >:•:» and it does not matter whether the water v^-m is hard or soft— the result is the same. M&. '•£jfes_ A v lni of labour, jyi'l'l'l's'. V J A saving of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 729 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. P. O. STEAM NAVIGATION GO. Kor China, Japan, Peoang. Ceylon, Australia, Iniia, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Porti, Plymouth md London Thr.ingh Billi of Ijadiog issued for Oulna Coadi, Persian Gulf, Continental, and Amerioan I Steamori will leave Singapore on or about MAIL LINES. Outward {for Ohina) Aanve Jin 23
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    • 545 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. N.Y.K. JAPAN MAIL BTEAMBHIP CG.LTD. A retrulai fortuightly servioe is maintained betwoen JAPAN ajjd BUROPB by the Company's well-known TWIK-SCSBW STEAMERS, nndor Mail Contraot with the Imperial Japanese Government, specially designed for the Company's European Servioe, lighted throughout by Electricity, provided with excellent accommodation for First and Second
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    • 591 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. BURNS PHILP LINE. SINGAPORE TO 'JAVA PORTB. PORT DARWIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, BRISBANE AND SYDNEi. ALSO TAKING CARGO FOR OTHER NORTH QUEENSLAND PORTS. BRITISH NEW GUINEA. NEW BRITAIN A NEW ZEALAND PORTS (with transhipment). *Aa inducement offers. Smooth passage. Superb Soenery. A regular monthly aervioe to above port! la
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    • 155 4 STEAMER BAILIWBB. STMWURT-MMmiMr'PM (STEAMSHIP COMPANY) NEDERLAND." FORTNIGHTLY MAIL SERVICE BETWEEN JAVA AND AMSTERDAM VIA SINGAPORE, SABANG, COLOMBO, PORT SAID, GENOA, ALGIERS TANGIER AND LISBON, AND DOVER, OCCASIONALLY. Steamers are due on or about the undermentioned ditei:— OI'TWIBD HoUEWJHII 1910 1810 K. Wilhelmina Feb 11 K Willem I Jan 39 Grotius
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    • 583 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE. HAMBURG. The steamers of this Company maintain a regular aervice between Hamburg. Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and the Straita China and Japan. Homewards, thsy are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and onoe a month for """•"•'haven direct, oalling at Ponann and Colombo. lacing cargo
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    • 735 4 STEAMER BAILIHIB. N. D. L. Norddautscher Lloyd, Bremen. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE. The fast and well-known mail steamer* of this Company sail fortnlghty from Bremen, Hamburg, via Rotterdam, Antwerp. Southampton, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naplea (oonoeetloa Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, aud vioe versa) Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penaag, Singapore, Hongkong Shanghai, Nagasaki
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  • 181 5 FIXTURES. Monday, January 34. High Water, -i.ss a m., 10 52 p.m. M. M. hc.iuiv.arj mail clo.ios at 3 p.m. Taipusam illiuiu Festival.) M. M. outward mail duo. Rand in tli" Garduus, 9. AUiambra Cinomatoyrapl' Harima Cinematograph. Marlboronnh Cinmuatograpli Tuesday, January 35. I High Water, 9.4K a.m.,
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  • 143 5 To-D*t. bs"Ceylon, A'tralasia, M'ntinu, India. Egypt, aud Europe, eto. ).-i- vih-n 3 pm Malaoca, Port Diokaon. Port Bwettenham and Telok Anson I'eraV S pm P. Bwettenham, Penang. Negnpatam A Madras Tar.. ln 4 pm Bai^on, Hongkong, Shanghai and Japan Arm.md Heine 6pm To-Morhow. Penanß, Malaooa, F.M.S. and
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  • 150 5 The M M osjtMrJ mail stcjmer Ai nan' sMsfa left <■ iloinbo al 8 a.m. on the 30 Ii tn»t., and may be expeutcd to arrive hero at ab"Ht 3 p.m. today. The P. and O. liom<'ward mail stoamer I 'rvanba left HjD^kong at I p.m. ou
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  • 691 5 Latest Arrivals. /.v.i*, l>>it Govt str, 2:.*) torn, XH crew. 1 gnu 100 h.p Com Capt Wink, Jiiu H. From Bhio. Jan J3. For Ri.uw, U— Rds. JMmm. lint Mf 4378 Iju ('apt Daviex, ,lun BL l'rom Jeddiih Jan 6. O.c and 744 p. W. Mansfield hml Co.
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  • 96 5 Wharves at which Vessel* are Berthed To •Day, TANJONQ PAQAH. Ear Wiuißun- Nil. Bast W. Saonoß I— Bantliia, New Orleans. Haonoß No. 1 (Ssnaas Whiht)— Minily a. Samoa 9 Taroba 8— Occamen. 4— Aloinonß. 6-Paro... 6— Memn >n, Calypv), Armani Licbic 3 p.m.
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  • 347 5 I'er M. M. steamer Arniand Behic duo January 24. Mr.C. Brun, Mr. and Mrs. Petit, Mrs. Kenel, Mr. Trilles, Mrs. Constant Petit. I'er M. M. steamer Tonkin due February 21.— Mr. Justice Braddell. Per P. and O. steamer Malwa, connecting with tho steamer Assaye,
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  • 555 5 P. and 0. Steamer Puts Back Badly Damaged. Of an alarming nature, but, fortunately, without fatal results, was a collision between two steamers in the Thames, nays a mail paper to hand this morning. One was the P. and O. liner Nile, and tho other the TolcgraphConstruction
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  • Finance & Commerce,
    • 115 5 Vn London— Bink 4 m/s 2/4 Demand 3/4^ Private 0 m/i 2/4} do 8 m/s 2/4.5 On Germany— Bonk d/d 288J Prirat j 8 m/g 244 do 6 m/e 246) On Prince Bank d/d 894^ Private 8 m/s 2994 do 6 m/s 803* On In iia- Bank T. T.
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    • 118 5 Qnmbiur buyers t 10.76 do (Cnbe No. 1) nnpiokod „14 871 Copra Bali 104S do Pontiansk io oq PepporJßlack buyers IS 25 do White 0% buyer* 37 00 baco Flonr Sarawak r9O do Brunei No. 1 norn noSi Coffee Bali 8000 coffee Pal.mbanß. 30* baa > nom. Coffee, Libemn
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  • STOCKS AND SHARES.
    • 284 5 Issni ViLOl Paid Company Last DmDiifß Bums Silliu 10 10 10 1 10 1 1 10 1 10 6/. 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 6 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 10 Belat Tin Mining Co., Ltd. 12% for '06 5.75 10 Bruang.Ltd. 5 .(0 10
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    • 691 5 s 2/. a H. a/--a- a/--2/-«/• 1 10 10 1 17 10 60 6 10 5 2 10 100 100 6 1 1 Sterling. Ayor J 'anas Rubber Estates Co. 2/- Allagar Rubber Estate Ltd. ...i 2/- Anglo-Malay Robber Co., Ltd. 25% in. '09 1 I Batn Caves Rubber
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    • 180 5 10 10 60 10 100 100 100 100 10 100 100 10 60 1 100 100 to 10 T 60 10 Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd. 10% lor 1 10% (or 8. .'6 Frasor Neavo, Ltd. 17*% for 'oB 150 00 Hotel van Wijk Co. Ltd. ?fl% for'oB 32.60 Howarth
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 218 5 AUCTION SALES. Howell and Co. Jan. 22.— At Clare Grove, Emerald Hill Road, off Orchard Road, household furniture, etc., property of D. Maw. at 12. Jan. 24. At Rale room fonr canes Turkish CieareUcs, at 11. Jan. 26.— At Tanjong Rhu, a hopper barge, at 2.80. Jan. 29.— At 71-S,
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    • 209 5 BRITIBH INDIA BTEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANO, NEOAPATAM, MADRAS, PONDICHISRRY, CUDOALORE, KARIKAIi AND NEOAPATAM. The Company's Steamer TAROHA, 6,309 tons, W. H. Jacab, Commander, will be despatched for the above ports on Monday January 24, at 5 p.m. She has exoellent accommodation for first and seoond-olaas passengers.
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    • 505 5 STEAMER SAILINGS INDOCHINA STEAM NAY. CO.. LTD. Tis sto»-i»M if this Cbmpany maintain a rejalar direct service between Calcutta, Straits, Hongkong, Shanghai and Japan, taking oargo, on through Bills of Lading for Oanton, Swatow Amoy, Chefoo, Tientsin, Newohwang. Yangtsie Pom, Formosa, the Philippiuos. Ac, Ao S teamen Tons Commander KnTßi«o
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 141 5 WEATHER REPORT. The following telegram hat been reoalved from the Melcorologioal Offloe, Hongkong Hongkoug, January It 10 a.m H'kong. Manila BinouKTER 30. a 761 DißEcnuNoF Wnn>.. No.-tli E. by N. Fokot 1 1 Dbt Thermometer 48 27 Wet 28 Weather O. D. O. Direction of Wind, <a registered every two
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  • 1119 6 The Straits Times MONDAY, JANUARY 24. MATTERS MUNICIPAL Some days ago we drew attention to the lorsistcnco of rumours that a very important >art of the local Waterworks was a total failure. The part in question, the filter bedb in Bukit Timah Hoad, either in consequence )f defective design or
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  • 10 6 Negri Sembilan exported 12.14 ozs. of I iiver last year.
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  • 18 6 Two cruisers of the Japanese Navy are due at Bangkok shortly, and may be coming on to Singapore.
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  • 21 6 It is stated that the Oemas-Bakau and Kuala Pilah section of tho railway will be open for traffic on February 1.
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  • 15 6 The report of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. will be found on page 2.
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  • 26 6 There was a collision near tbe Memorial Hall, this morning, between a ricksha and the gharry of Mr. A. W. Bean. The gharry shafts were broken.
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  • 25 6 Mr. Green sentenced Tin Chin Ngo to three months' rigorous imprisonment, on Saturday, for rescuing a prisoner, and three more for assaulting a Malay constable.
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  • 29 6 Th.' Mid iliwex Regiment have been given a holiday today in celebration of the Spion Kop fight, in which the second battalion of the Regiment took a distinguished part.
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  • 31 6 The Hippodrome Circus and Menagerie will open to morrow night instead of to-night, as previously announced, owing to the late arrival of the steamor by which the circus travelled from Bangkok.
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  • 38 6 Tuesday, the 25th being tbe Conversion of St. Paul, there will be a celebration of Holy Communion in St. Andrew's Cathedral at 7 a.m., while there will be Choral Evensong and Address the same day at 6 p.m.
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  • 68 6 The steamer Wilhelm has been purchased by Messrs. Stephen Paul and Co who will continue her on the run Singapore to Macassar, via Sourabaya, Bali and Amreaan, under the comm md of Capt. Richter. An aged woman named Tan Kin Gam was fined (10 or, in default, sentenced to three
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  • 43 6 The local (olice have arrested Ng Hooi Hah, a Hokien, on a charge of enticing away from the Colony, in September 19.8, Yu Heah, the wife of Tub Tiam, and her three children, kuowiog that she had a husband, and with evil intent.
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  • 44 6 There will be a Church Parade of the Singapore Volunteer Corps on Sunday, February 6, at 830 p.m. By kind permission of Colonel Glover and officers, the band of the Middlesex l< -giment wilt bj present. The Bishop will preach at the parada service-
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  • 66 6 A little girl named Tan Mob Nab, eight years of age, was called by a Chinaman in :rout of her house in Purvis St., yesterday, to look at a bird, which be said he held in bis hand. When she approached him he pnlled her rings from her fiugets and
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  • 64 6 Mr. Gardiner, the chief police officer, arrested two Hokieu women in a house in Cross St on >aturdny afternoon, on a charge of beiug the occupiers of a common gaming house, where a chap fw kee lottery was conducted One of the accused is alleged to nave offered Mr. Gardiner
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  • 72 6 The alleged attack by five Malays on two ricksha men in D.ilvey Road turns out to have been a hoax, a* the injured men have admitted that they made a false report. It appears that thi two pullers were coasting down the lull when they met with a serious disaster,
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  • 78 6 The first of the celebrations of the Hindu Taipusam festival began this morning, when the customary procession of the silver car took place, from Tank Road to Sepoy Lines. The proeeshion will return to the Tauk Road temple between fix o'clock and midnight to-day. The procession of the silver peacock
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  • 97 6 The Norwegian steamer Oscar 11. arrived yesterday evening, in tow of the T. P. D. tug Varuna. The captain's report is that at 730p m. on the 18. h instant, the steamer struck bottom and remained hard and fast outside TaDJong Braket in thick weather. Nine hundred tons of her
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  • 88 6 Before Mr. WoUerstan, at the district court on Friday afternoon, a Bengali named Mahdeo sued two Chinese nami.d Goh Ah Sin and Ong Ah for 9250 as damages for wrongful trespass and injury to bis cittle. Mr. Johannes appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Cooper for the defendants. The evidence
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  • 111 6 Mons. Door Leßlanc had a fair audience, mostly of yormg men, at the Victoria The atie, on Saturday night, when he gave his second exhibition of legerdemain, magic, hypnotism, etc. The merit of the performance lies, however, in the work of Sultana, Hanoum which is very good. So-called magicians galore
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  • 122 6 The Red j ing Lsbong mine closed the year 19 9 with a gross balance estimated at 2 833.000 guildtr», less working expenses. On JiDuary 1, 1910, the ore reserves were estimated at about 807,000 tons, th« gold averaging at 18 dwtt to the ton. These results mark a falling
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  • 432 6 Admiral Sir Hod worth Lvnbton was ti be entertained to dinner at thu British Legation, Baugkok, on Thursday, the 20.h iusiaut. The death took place at Tientsin, on January 6, of Mr. W. C. B. Cowen, editor of The China Times. Mr. Cowen was 45 years of
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  • 103 6 The fimtof the Children's Concerts for this year will beheld on Wednesday afternoon next, at 6 30, nnder arrangements similar to those prevailing at former entertainments. Heads of school i and parents are asked to note the dato. Tho particular feature of this concert will be the presence
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  • 124 6 Mr. J tinea F. Younge arrived at Singapore from Hongkong to-day, to arrange for the visit of the Comedy Co., for two nights only, January 31 and February 1. The first piece to be presented will be announced in to morrow's newspapers, but it will probably be
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  • 127 6 The popularity of moving pictures in Singapore, which, in theatrical language can only be sufficiently described as 'a raw" hxH lt>i to great activity iii the competition ring. Capital pictures are being exhibited at the various shows to large houses. On Saturday evening, tho Alhambra cinematograph gave a
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  • 210 6 The Chinese searclmrs for sand havo become an intolerable nui-aacj at Taoj ing Film and TaojoDg Katong and are now doing tbeir best to rain tho beach at Si« Up. The Government grants permits to contractors to rcmovo sand at a distance of not less tlian twenty feet
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 120 6 W. D. A H. O. WILL'S THREE CASTLES "MAGNUMS" A Larga Hand-Made Cigarette. T^~ Papkwl in c MAGNUMS" t/tf racked in >V> Pj. lee m L 'nree Castles *V*- Cigarettes 55 CTS. Air tight < RSEFSfI i' |l wdVh.ow.Us 'lv Bristol Londc^^^jiS^ OBTAINABLE AT: John Little Co., Ltd., Robinson Co.
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    • 227 6 ALHAMBRA BEACH ROAD. THE BIG SHOW. NEW SUBJECTS. NEW SUBJECTS. To-Night s Programme. Second Show at 9.80. LOURDES. Tbe various aspect!), famous for its Miraculous Fount and tbe Mecca of thousands of Pilgrims and invalids every year. The train loads of Invalids, the Ambulance Cariierp, (he Procession, tbe Qrotto, etc.,
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  • 274 7 UNIONISTS' EIGHTEEN WINS. Astonishing Results in the Counties. Mr Redmond's Menace to Liberal Party. IKaUTK'B T*LW»AMi London, January 22 Tbe election returns up to th« present are a* follows I tnouihti 181 Liberals 169 Labourite* 82 Nationalists 58 The I'm mis'. i have gaiuml Eiifield. Mr. M -K
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  • 75 7 In the following table we show tbe position ot parties ou the eve of tbe dissolution and the state of parties in the new Parliament on Saturday, at midnight At Dissolution New Parliament. Liberal-. 886 177 Labour 88 82 Socialists 1 0 Nationalists 88 60 Total anti-
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  • 95 7 The results given in tbe foregoing telegrams (i. c. up to Saturday midnight) may be grasped more clearly when stated as under. As there Beems to be some difference between the Reference book and Reuter methods of classifying Liberal and Labour returns, we give them combined in
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  • 142 7 The Liberals have now taken a lead or five over the Liberal and Labour parties combined. Taking the fall weeks' results into consideration it seems quite probable that the Unionists will gain in the proportion of two for each ten of the Liberal seats, which remain to be
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  • 686 7 Details of the Unionist and Liberal Party Gaios. The following is a full list of returns up to Saturday midnight. It contains particulars of the Party gains Unionists. London University, Sir Philip Magnus. Ayr Burghs, G. Younger. Bootle (Lancashire), Major Sandys Knfield i Middles* xi, J. R
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  • 32 7 (From Our Own Corresponds nt.) Koala Lumpur, January 21. The Bachelors' Ball at Ipoh, on Friday evening, which was held at the Grand Hotel, was a great success.
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  • 54 7 (From Oca Own Cokusfonobmt.) Koala Lampar, January 24. The following are the selections for the races on Tuesday. Otlloway Handicap. Fly. Champion Griffin Race. La Parola. Selaogor Stakes. Second Start. Ex-Griffin Handioap. New Chum. Weld's Hill Stakes.- Lyuwood. Novices' K*oe. Seedtime. Selling Rice Di-guise. Negri Sembilan Cup.— Blerlot.
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  • 533 7 LABOUR EXCHANGES AND BETTER HOUSES. End of Kissing tbe Book. With Now Year's Day a number of new Acts of Parliament will come into force, states the Daily Mail. Notable are those dealing with labour exchange and boosing and town planning. For the purposes of tbe
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  • 308 7 Programme of the Scots' Concert To-morrow. Th c following is tbe programme of the Scots Concert to bo held in tbe Victoria Theatre, to morrow, at 9 p.m Part I. Overture Scottish Airs Madame Dietz's trio Chorus There was a Lad was born in Kyle Choir
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  • 51 7 The following F. M. S. planting companies have just received permission to recruit given numbers of coolies in Java Pabang Consolidated, 200 labourer* Federated Malay States Kubber and Klanang Produce, 1,21 0 Sandycrof t Rubber, 200 Senawang Rubber Estates, 250 Batang Benar Estate, 800 and Ledbory Kubber and Kinraia Estate,
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  • 972 7 MARKET CONDITIONS DURING 1909. Report of Gow. Wilson and Stanton. In the report on the rubber industry for tbe year Um'.i, Messrs Gow, Wilson and Stanton, Ltd of Rood Lane, London, state Sales. The quantity of plantation rubber, which passed through the auctions daring the year under
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  • 120 7 REPLY TO THE CHINA RAILWAY PROPOSALS. Refusal to Entertain Scheme of Neutralisation. [Die OaTAHUTiscm Lloyd Tilioeam] Berlin, January 28. Mr. Isvolsky has banded to the American Ambassador in St. Petersburg the reply of the Russian Government to the proponal for neutralisation of Manoburian railways made by Mr.
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  • 74 7 REPORTED LOSS OF FORTY LIVES IN CANADA. Pacific Train Falls Over River Embankment. [RaOTBR'g TILRORAM] London, January 23. A Canadian Pacific train has been precipitated over a river embankment at Wellwood, Ontario. The number of killed is estiinatid variously from 10 to 40, and many have been injured.
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  • 92 7 SPEECH AT OPENING OF DIET IN TOKIO. Reduction of Duties on Cotton. [RacTßß'a Tblboram London, January 24. Tbe Tokio Diet has been convened and in a speech the Marquis Kit sura said that relations with all the treaty Powers were harmonious. Tbe alliance with Great Britain bad been
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  • 46 7 [RaUTSR's TILIORAMj London, January 24. Earthquakes are recorded in several European centres. Shocks have been felt at Cardiff, and Paris, and Ireland. It is believed that the centre of the earthquako is in the Caucasus or Armenia.
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  • 50 7 Tenth Jats Ordered From Calcutta To Hyderabad. (Riutir's Tblioram. London, January 24. The 10th Jats, who are at present stationed at Calcutta, have been ordered to Hyderabad, in consequence of the arrest of ten men of the regiment on charges of sedition, as reported on the 19th inst.
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  • 50 7 Sentenced to Death by Court Martial. |lUct«k's Tklioram| London, January 24. Vasskresaenuky, the assassin of Colonel Karpoff, Chief of the Secret Police, who was enticed into a flat and blown to pieces by a bomb at St. Petersburg, has been court mar tialled and sentenced to death.
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  • 76 7 Courtesies at French Exhibition Opening. (Dm Ostabiatibch* Lloyd Tilioram] Berlin, January 23. On Tuesday (25th) the Emperor and Empress of Germany, the Crown Prince, and Prince Henry will be present at the trench Embassy on the occasion of the opening of the French Exhibition at Berlin. A
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  • 38 7 Reported Visit of U.S. Fleet in tbe Spring. |D*R OSTASIATISCHI LLOTD TkLIUKAU Berlin, January 28. It is rumoured at St. Petersburg that In th* spring the Amorican rtoet will pay a visit to Chinese ports.
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  • 27 7 [Daa Ostasiatis.jh* Lloyd Tkl*<jra*| Borliu, Jauuary 23. The Russian Military Attache at Vienna has beon recalled, after exposures in connection with a case of spying.
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  • 26 7 [Dm Ostasutisob* Llotd Til*uram| Herhu, Jauuary 28. Tho Seine is flooded, and thero has been great damage owing to ntorms in the Mediterranean.
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  • 23 7 |D*R OaTABUH3cu« Lloyd Tsluoram) Berlin, January 23. At Wilhelmshaven and tho Caspian Sea a long toiled comet has been sighted
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  • 259 7 Indian Shopkeeper Charged with Cheating. Mr. E. T. Arnold prosecuted a Mahoinedan Indian, named Mohaiued Ali, before Mr. Caiman, on Saturday, on a charge ot cheating io respect of a tin of cigarettes, valuod at 30 cants. The little daughter ot complain ant, Nelly Arnold, said tbat ou
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  • 538 7 Skipper Seeks Damages for Clerk's Error. Capt. Jauies Ewart, of the Sarawak steamer Kuching, sued the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation before Mr. Saundera, on Saturday, for $500 conjpensa tion for damages alleged to have been suffered in consequence of defendant*' wrongful re fuual, while they were
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 230 8 In the crickoi match, at Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, the officials beat the unofficial s. Our correspondent at Kuala Lumpur wires that the race prospects are of the brightest, and that the lotteries are rapidly filling up. <>n the S. R. C. ground, on .Saturday, the home
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    • 186 8 Singapore (101 l Club. The January modal and 1909 gold modal of the Singapore (ijlf Hub *ore played for on Siturday and Sunday. The gold medal was won by Mr. R J. Addie, who returned a nett score of 78. The result of play for the January medal was
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    • 253 8 S. C. C. Tournament. The second match in the B. C. C. cricket tournament was finished on Saturday, the contesting teams being the Club and the Garrison. The results follow S. C. C. L. J Wishart b Clarke 56 A. W. Bevon c Perrott b Clarke 3 Dr. Soharengnivel
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  • 214 8 Making a Daring Overland Journey to England. Dr. U. E. Morrison, the well-known Peking correspondent of The Times, was to leave Poking or home on January 0. l>r. Morrison ntends to travel overland, via the ill Pass, uto Kashgaria, the Khan States, Southern Rumia. and so through the
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  • 383 8 Solemnised in St Andrew's Cathedral on Saturday. That the local Chinese arc advanoing rapidly along European lines was demonstrated in the wedding of Miss Adarine Tinneo, ot Holland Villa, Bukit Timah Road and Mr. Oh -lilt Seng, of Messrs. -litts and Co.. which took place at St. Andrew's
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  • 425 8 Remarkable Paper Read at Meeting of Manila Medical Society. At the annual meeting of the Manila Medical Society, held on January 3, a paper wa« read by Doctors Coca and Gilman entitled The Specific Treatment of Cancer. After a brief resume of the experimental basis of the
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  • 140 8 On May 24 last the Empire Day number ot The Times created a record as being tin largest issue of any daily newspaper yet recorded. It consisted of seventy-two pages and weighed lib. lOJoz. Great as this achievement was, it was surpassed on Deoember 29 when the
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  • 105 8 A European who is said to have been suffering from suostroke was arrested by the Chief Police Officer, on Sunday morning, shortly after midnight, on a charge of attempting to commit culpable homicide by firing a carbine with such intention or knowledge and under such circumstances tbit it be had
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  • STOCKS AND SHARES.
    • 568 8 Nom. Value. Bayers. Sellers. 2/- AUagar 4/6 4/7 A 2/- Options 1/6 2/. 2/- Anglo-Malay 17/0 1- 41 Anglo-Sumatr* 89/- 42/6 1 Banteng 38/6 42/8 1 Batu Caves 150/- 157/6 1 Batn Tiga 60/. 65/1 Beaufort Borneo IS/- pd. 0/6 2/6 pm 1 Brieb 10/- pd. 6/- 8/6
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    • 176 8 10 Bolat S 80 6 10 Bruaux 5.10 6 25 10 Brnseh 7. 7 50 4 1 DaS ObTolopmenl 6.50 7.— 1 Jehei 3.— 2.76 10 Kaaabci 2.40 2.70 4 1 KinU 15.— 16— 1 Kledang 1.50 2.— 1 Kramat Palai 2.75 10 KnantaD 8.20 8.60 4 1
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    • 72 8 60 Frwer and New Ld 149 60 16 1.60 10 Hotel no Wijk 23.-24 zd 100 Howarth Brskine Ld. 5100 68.— 100 7% Pnl 1CO._ 100 RilejHargreaTe«*Co.Ld. 85.— 87 60 100 7% Pro* 98.-100.-10 Singapore Cold Storage Co. 13 85 14.— 60 DispeoMury 61- 68. xd. 4 1 Tramway
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  • 196 8 Excellent Progress With the Forthcoming Show. The Lord Mayor of London presided at a meeting of the General Commikteo of tbo lapan-Uritish Exhibition held at the Mansion House, and promised to give bis official support to the undertaking. Mr. Freemen Murray read the report of the CommissionerGeneral, Mr.
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  • 139 8 Members Smash Furniture to Pieces. Daring a sitting of the Duma, at St. Petersburg, M. RoditschealT. a Cadet deputy, rose to ask a question regarding the adumsibility of the local languages in local courts, and declared that the election rights accorded to the Poles by fundamental
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 295 8 LATEST ADVERTISE VIENTS. HOUSE TO LET. Compound house, No. 4, Devonshire li3ad. Immediate entry. Apply to 7-1, Devonshire Read. ISI CONTRACT TO LET. At once, for clearing and planting with Para Rubber seedlings, 30 acres secondary jungle, three miles from Batu Pauat, Johore. Apply D c/o Straits Times. R39MS TO
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    • 277 8 RILEY, HARGREAVES AND CO., LTD. ELECTRICAL SHOWROOMS: NO. 5, BATTERY ROAD. THE BEST EQUIPPED IN THE EAST. INSPECTION INVITED. SOLE AGENTS FOR CROMPTON ft CO., LTD., ENGLAND. BRITISH INSULATED ft HELSBY CABLES, LTD. The Standard Life Assurance Co. WE CAN OBTAIN FOR YOU A LIFE POLICY: 1. At Home Rates
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    • 227 8 MARLBOROUGH BEACH ROAD. The People's Popular. CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. TO-NIGHT! Second Show, at 9.30 p.m. THE HUNGRY CHILD, s DJMfc (Comic piece by Yves Muxandci. A.TUR.V M. Prince of tho Varietes. Mademoiselle Rasny of tin. 1 Atlitni c Th oatre, Little Mademoiselle Fromot of thu Porte St. Martin Theatre, Paris.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 648 9 WHY BUY A MOTOR CAR For $4,000 when you can get SdiiB££93Bfl Bflfef infc-****-* Id a more PO werful car oi better R3»\ quality for feSL HALF THE PRICE- -gij^^K^ ■W*_jssqf Vb HE Watch the car No. 303 now \^S' "^^^Sw' running in Singapore. <^-*^ ~*^*^A ""■■pHcSi':^™' That's a FORD
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    • 540 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. C P. R. Canadian Paoiflo Railway Company's Royal Mall Steamship Lint. IHB RATIONAL HIGH WAX TO KUBOPB ru OBINA JAPAN, CANADA an« Ike GNU ED 6TATBB Route from Hongkong, via Shanghai, RagHikJ, (Inland Sea of Jat»o), Kobe, Yokohama, \r loloria and VanooaTU, 8.M.8. •EMta.sa o# ItiDii- ATwin-Mraw Btea
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    • 303 9 i:i::z Player Pianos j j THE ROBINSON Auto-Manual GASH or $690. f ERUraSa These Instruuients embody our twenty years' experience of the Singapore clituato ami carry our guaranteeTELEPHONE 191. Robinson Piano Co., Ltd. PATRONISED '^Jp^-^'^^^^S BY ROYALTY. You Can Get the Best Selection of DIAMOND RINGS Ladies' Diamonds M:o.»I tii-utU-nifu'H
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    • 22 9 DOGS HEAD Brand AHEAD of ALL BASS'S ALE GUINNESS'S STOUT SOLD EVERYWHERE. Sola Agents KIM HIN AND CO., 13. Kiing Street, Singapore.
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  • 776 10 STRANGE SIGHTS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PILGRIMAGE. Whole Moslem World Interested. The Cairo correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing on December 14, says lor the past month feverish bustle and excitement has rtigned at Abdin and Koubbeh Palaces. There has been incessant coming and going between
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  • 180 10 Telegram from King to Princess Royal Goes Astray. When the officials at the Marseilles docks received a telegram addressed, The Princess Royal, they looked for a ship of that name. Meanwhile, the Dochess of Fife (Princess Royal) who with the Duke of Fife and Princesses Maud and Alexandra
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 461 10 WBUBJUICE. GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASBURANGE CO., LIMITED. Head Office Winchester House, SINGAPORE. Board of Directors I 0 A. Dbrricb, Esq., Chairman. 4r AsMC.i Esq., Vioe-Chairman. A. H. Fair, Esq., Managing Director. Pans Fowua, m j., cm. Chief Med. Officer. 1 M. Elliot, Esq. Itev. N. J. Codtrbob. Vow Noak Pam,
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    • 546 10 INSURANCE. COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED FIRE. LIFE, MARINE, ACCIDENT, GUARANTEE. ASSETS exoeed 117,000.000 W. A. SIMS, Manager, Eaetern Branch. tJONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital £1,641,000 Paid np Capital 54,100 Reee'rvi Fund *1,9M,4M Tbe undersigned, Agenta for the Company ire prepared tc aooepl fire riika it current ate.
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    • 539 10 BANKING. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. AUBTRALIA AND CHINA. OORPORATiSD BT ROYAL CHARTER Paid op Capital to 80,000 Shant of CMaaob i 1,100,000, 100,000 ittttJt Food 1 1,674, 000 3«*erre Liability ol Proprie ton all, 100,000 BANKERS. Bank ol England. Rational Bui of Scotland. tki ftondca City A Midland Bank, Ltd.
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    • 62 10 BEGIN TREATMENT AT ONCE. Have you a weak throat If so, you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another and tho last is always the harder to cure. If you will take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the outset you
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    • 551 10 BY AUCTION. ATJOTIOIT Sj^LE. High-class Teak Furniture, Pianoforte with Apollo Attachment, Plants, etc., THE PROPERTY OK KW. IHNN. ESO... At the Hooding Estate, Keppel Harbour, On Saturday, January 29, at 1.30 p.m. a\d m' upi Yii Dg D.^« m r ILLIANT TOXEI OOTTAOI pianoforte by robinson w^jffiKila 4 VS^?asli?fflfm?SS D
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    • 454 10 BY ORDER OK THE COMMISSIONER OF STAMPS IN THE MATTER OF NEO BIN NEO DECEASED. AUCTION SALE of VALI' ABLE CHINESE JEWELLERY AND EFFECTS On Wednesday, January HO, at 10.30 a.m. At Messrs. H. L. Coghlan Co.'b Salerooms. Nos. 4 and 5 Rallies Place. Comprising gold pinding, liairpinn gold tobacco
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  • 1010 11 NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS. Says tbe Motor, under tbe beading Merrie Aviation Mr. S. F. Cody made picturesque guest of honour. Warren Bell sang White Wings. C. P. Sisley sang a parody on Hi hi Up be rises! George Kdgar sang The Fly and the Kin. G.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 242 11 SILENT KNIGHT "Minerva" Cars Were conspicuously brought to light in the last Scottish Thiai., seenring the MEDAL for record time on hills, and the SCOTTISH CUP for the record in economy. CENTRAL ENGINE WORKS. Sole Agents. BRITISH BEST. Vulcan Motor Cars. latest 1910 MODEL Silent! Fasti Flexible! 12 HP. (R.A.C.
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    • 66 11 DANGER FROM CROUP. A few minutes delay in treating some cases of croup, even the length of time it takes to go for a doctor often proves dangerous. Tbe safest way is to keep Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house, and at the first indication of croup give the child
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    • 223 11 A Dainty Non-Greasy Balm for the Skin BEAUTY > il^f W HAZE LINE -Wi < (TRADE MARKI i :p SNOW jgs BURROUGHS WELLCOME CO. >\ LONDON (ENG.) Nr« vovt Montreai BVD*H Can Town v J I Shanghai /yvv-'iiKrvvv 1 IWv SOLD IN GLASS POTS BY ALL THE PRINCIPAL PHARMACISTS. A
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    • 37 11 SINGAPORE SODA WATEP JEstaMisJUrfoyvr 25jtars. CHEONG BROTHERS, Dentists, 25, South Bridge Road. First-class Mochinacal Dentistry, Gold Crowns, Bridge, Filling and VulcanitDuration of Wear guaranteed. CHARGES MODERATE FULL LINE DENTAL UPPLIEB. Best Tooth Powders and Brushes for nale
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 621 12 WANTS. BOARD AND LOOSING WANTED. By lady, with private, simple family. ■i. tjrui*, to M.P.,c/o Sti aits Times. SURVEYORS WANTED. Wanted, three qualified Surveyors at once. A:<ply Williams, Draper an-l Steadman. liresham Ho .4. 1.149 BOARD AND L0061N6 WANTEO. \oung man desires Board and Lodging with priv.tte family. Teiuis moderate.
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    • 637 12 rO BE LET OB SOLD. HBUSEI T8 BE LET. Hot. 81 Ml 88, Ut«rallo« Hill, Wjtr ?»lley Boa*. Apply to Lr.B CUESQ lAS ■Mb, UTI BFFIIE 88D8WN Tl BE LIT. With tanmadlate ntty Ho. 1, Malaooa B»re*i. apply to OUTHRIS 00., Ll'D. MM TO BE LET. Nos. 19 and 20,
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    • 598 12 TO BE LET OR SOLD. BODOWN AND OFFICE TO LET. No. 05, Robinson Road. Moderate rent. Apply to J, LEVY, No. 10, Robinson Road. ulBsB HOUBE TO LET. WHITEHOUSK, Dalvey Road. Immediate entry. Apply to Fraser Cumming, 29, Winchester House. nlB6o FURNISHED HOUSE TO LET. "Sherwood," Paterron Road, from March
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    • 594 12 NOTICES. C.H. Willis, Having left for Kuala Lumpur, clients may do business by wire addressed to "Straight" Kuala Lumpur 128 THE STRAITS TRADING CO.. LTD. NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF BEARER BHARE WARPANTB. Notice is hereby given, that on presentntion of Coupon No. IT at the Chartered Bank of India, Australia
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    • 980 12 SINGAPORE RUBBER WORKS. Netherlands Outta Percha Co., Ltd. Motor-tyres retreadod at Moderate Prices. All kinds of India Rubber Articles. Sbeots, VALVES, Rings, TYRES, HOSES (Suction, Steam, Hydraulic), Gardent:osos, Tubes, ENDLESS BELTS, FLOORTILES, MATTING, EBONITE and Hard Rubber Articles, Bicycle Tyres. Works Offices: Passir Panjang, Singapore. Sole Agents i MESSRS. HOOGLANDT
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