The Straits Times, 6 September 1910

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times. NO. 23.355 SINGAPORE. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1910. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 149 1 D, ft J, McCallnm's PERFECTION WHISKY. MLDBEOK. MAOBREBOR AND COMPANY. KATZ BROS., LD. Outfitting Dept. GENTS' RAINCOATS. The Newbury. In Fawo, Olive and Grey, a special cheap line, smart shape and made of hard-wearing material. The Featherweight." In 4 shades, lighter in weight than the Newbury" and of a better
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    • 89 1 THE MALAYAN RAMIE CO., LTD., IN LIQUIDATION. FOR SAif IV AUCTION OR HI VAT£ TENDER: The Entire Stock of Machinery comprising Ploughing Plant; one large and one small circnlar saw Bench complete, Traction Engine, Horizontal Steam Engine, Baboock and other Boilers, Steam and Hand Winches, Chain Blocks, Stamping Tackle, Bark
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    • 65 1 SALE OF THE GERMAN S t S. DAGMAR, will be held at Messrs. Windsor Co.'s office At BANGKOK, On Thurtday, September 15, HO. The Steamer to be sold as she bow lies in her damaged condition at Koh Pra (Bangkok Quarantine Station). Gross Tonnage 1,457 ton 8 Net 921 tons.
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    • 196 1 AT ROBINSONS The Cash Sale AFFORDS AN Excellent Opportunity OF PURCHASING Gentlemen's Underwear Neglige" and Dress Shirts "Pyjama Sleeping Suits" 11 Socks" in many Textures 11 Travelling Rugs" and Bags/ (FULL DESCRIPTION IN OUR SALE CATALOGUE OF 128 PAGES). Robinson Go. HARIMA HALL Cinematograph NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. TO-NIGHT. 2nd Show,
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    • 50 1 Bollinger Chompflgnt. [caldbeck. macgre6or :ano company. Justus Van Maurik's NAME ON A BOX OF CIGARS IMPLIES GOOD QUALITY. All dealers stock them. ASAHI Jjjire JLPJLsf JL^aV 1 1 Best mad jjg|g. Cheapest. i'jfjHß The Mitsui Bnssan Kaisha, Ld. fS| |f t^Ts^ THE DAI NIPPON BREWERY Oll^^^^i c' Tamoto Company |f^W^^
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  • 881 2 MOCK BULL-FIGHT AT EATON HALL. Queen of Spain in a Race. The King and Queen oi Spain spent a thoroughly happy, unconventional, and successful day at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on August 11, says the Daily Mail. In the morning they took part in a gymkhana, the King being
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 59 2 'VAN A' TONIC WINE Nourishing and Strengthening Enriches the blood Invigorates the nerves Braces the muscles Tones the digestion y'Restores the appetite The Ideal Invigorator Of all Chemists Hv|? BURROUGHS WELLCOME CO., LONDON New York Montreal Sydney Cape Town Milan Shanghai XX 163 All Richie Rtwrved ar> Y»iJttafc^2 1 111
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    • 133 2 CHAMBERLAIN 8 PAIN BALM A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY. It m in time of sudden mishap or accident that Chamberlain's Pain Balm can be relied upon to take tbe place of tbe family doctor, who cannot always be found at the moment. Tben it is that Chamberlain's Pain Balm is never fonnd
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    • 373 2 Rubber Producing Companies Handbook. Orders now being booked for Rubber Producing Companies Handbook Capitalised in dollars. $2.00 per copy. Only 1,000 Books available. COFFEE BOBUSTA SEEDLINGS. December to January Delivery. L. Y. SWEE CO., General Commission Agents A Sbare Brokers. 81, Old Market Square, Koala Lumpur. 1074 WAH HENG CO.
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    • 171 2 rUSHUIUOAUj The Best Steaming Coal in the Far East. FRBSH STOCKS always on hand sWMM* taiia to. OUTPUT 3000 TOHB Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore }£fi DCQ lI AV •ndPenang. It II UHI, Kill OIrUTIIITi South Manchuria Railway Co., Tel address: "Man tetsn." Codes: A.B.C. slb Ed., A.I. and Lieber's. A MITSUI
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  • 597 3 INTERESTING CEREMONY AT ST. PETERS, MALACCA. A correspondent writes as follows: Sonday, August 28, was tbe occassion of the sacerdotal silver jobilee of the Rev. Father Jeronymo Franoisco da Silva. of the I'ortugnese Church of St Peter, Malacca, and was oelebrated by high macs, the priest himself officiating.
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  • 442 3 Annual Report on Registration in Straits Settlements. The Hon. Dr. W. Oilmore Ellis has presented hi 9 annual report on tbe registration cf birtbß and deaths in the Straits Settlements for tbe year 1909. This shows that the mean estimated population which, calcu lated from the census
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 357 3 MAINTAINS THE HIGHEST REPUTATION EVERYWHERE. BUILD UP and PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH and Fortify the^System against Disease wim EXTRACT OF WEP_ja««Al£*__^_^__ j^ -w. omnot ipaak ■^■fWpWikVil k^M w^L\ 9 ?T% WK Kat %ou ki*ki 7 ot it ITl'l.Aff'lafl^liVlHMlMH ismt't Pronounced by the HIGHEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES pO VtWV&" •Torpid Liver, Debility, Eruptions,
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    • 32 3 k DANGER AVOIDED. There is no danger from blood poison resulting from a wound when Chamberlain's Pain Balm is applied. It is an antiseptic liniment. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 374 3 rw BEYOND COMPETI M^R TION FOR CHE4PNESS are we in all ARTICLBB ANDNOVELTIESOFTHE figft NjVVi GERMAN INDUSTRY unch /faQm^ JM Toys, Hardware, Leather\fmsjM M ware, Paper, Stationery and jHE JM Mnjic goods, I'erfumep. Petty wares, Gold and Silverware, mU Cycles, Photograpbio Articles pB and everything else. Our catalogue is our
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    • 444 3 $umk Sozodoivt f /^^^^B Everyone US€B 'oolhwash or po^^•der. I^^^^AJ Mo, t are not wt i f fi an j tr> one a f, er anot j, er And still ihc K-elh are not as white and hygienically i>J* J^^ v -*m l fl clean as they should be. (Jtymj"
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 637 4 STEAiER BAILWBB. P. 8? O. BTEAM NAVIGATION CO. Par China, Japan, Penao c 8ryl»B, Aastralia, India, Aden, Bgyat, Mediterranean Parts, Plymonth and London. Through Bills of Lading Issued for Ohlaa Ooast, Persian Gulf, Continental, and Amerioao Ports. Btsamera will leave Singapore oa or about MAIL LINES. Outward i/orOkiiM) Dehl Sept
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    • 523 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. N. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CB.LTD. A regnlar fortnightly servioe is maintained between JAPAN aan HUROPfI by the Company's well-knowa TWU-ROIIW Illillll, onder Mail Contraot with the Imperial Japanese Government, specially designed tor the Company's Hurope&n Servioe, lighted throughoat by Hlootrioity, provided with oxoellent aooommodation for First
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    • 917 4 STEAMER MILINBB. C. P. R CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY 8 ROYAL MAIL STEAMBHIP LINE. Tn NATIONAL HIGH WAT TO KUROPB VIA OHINA, JAPAN, CANADA AND THB UNITED STATBS. Ronto from Hongkong via Shainghai, Nagasaki (Inland Sea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama. Victoria and Vancouver. R M.B. Bmpbbss or India Twinsorew steamR.M.S.
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    • 522 4 STEAMfct BIIUWII HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE. HAMBURG The rtaameri of this Oompany maintain a regular service between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, aad ths Straits, China and Japan Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Ham burg and onoe a month for reraerhaven direct, oalllng at Penang and Oolombo. Taking
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    • 686 4 STEAMER BAIIHHB. N. D. L. Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. IMPERIAL 6ERMAN MAIL UNI. The fast and well-known mall stsamt™ oi this Oompany sail fortelghiy from Brsaiia, Hamburg, via Hotter dam, Antwerp, Soataaap ton, Gibraltar, Osnoa, Naples (ntiaasntloa Marseilles, Naples, AUtaadris, and vice Tat Port Said, Sues, Adea, Oolombo, Peasns. Blnuaporo, Hongkong
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  • 139 5 FIXTURES. Tuesday. September A. High water, 0.12 pun. Wednesday, September 7. High Water, 0.14 a.m., 0.84 p.m. Thursday, September 8. High Water, 0.47 a.m., 0.88 p.m. P. and O. homeward mail due. Philharmonic Orchestra, 6 Friday, September 9. High Water, 1.20 a.m. LSI p.m. P. and O.
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  • 104 5 To-Du Uatavia Timor 3 pm Deli Calypso 3 pm Malacca and Muar Lady Weld 3 pm Malacca, Port Diokson and Port Swettenham Poh Ann 3pm Hongkong Lai Sang 8 pm Bagan O, Hook Kian 4pm Bangkok I.andrat Shieff 4pm Honrabaya, Boeleleng, etc. Band 1 pm To-Morsow. Psnang,
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  • 134 5 The P. and O. homeward mail steamer Arcadia left Hongkong at 1 p.m. on Saturday, tbe 3rd instant, and is dne here at 6 o'clock on Thursday morning, the Bth instant. The P. and O. outward mail stearaar Delhi left Colombo at 10 p.m. on Saturday the
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  • 264 5 Latest Arrival*. ■tritst, Swm str 352 long, Capt Bay, kept 8. From Bangkok, Aug 17. O.c. and 67 d.p. East Amatio Coy. For Bangkok, Sept 7— Bd«. Daerc Caul, Brit atr 26:.? tons, Capt Smith, S*pt 5. Fr >m New York, Jaly 21. G.c. Pater■on Simon A Co.
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  • 91 5 Wharves at which Vessels arc Berthed To- Day. TANiONO PAQAR Eibt Wbihf Basw— Nil. Ein W. Sacrum I— Van der Lijn. Smu Wbiu- N .1. MinW.Ssei.l-Beang Bee, Silesia. •'■*> Bang. «-Hil. B— Chiengmai. n B-Northambria, Minderoo. Lasom Dock 7 (Finder ooortructlon.) Wkt Wiui
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  • 384 5 Arrivals. I'or steamer van Noort, Sept. s.— From Batavia i Mr. and Mrs. T. Katenkamp, Mr. and Mrs. Diendonne and ebildren, Mr. and Mr*. Hills, Mrs. Onwekerk, Metsra. T. R. Wolf, W. Brownen, Y. Kunke, Clodd, D. Kenekenins, M. Leomte do Loislo, Bijrne and Tjt istor. Per
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  • 248 5 Finance Commerce. EXCHANGE. SINOAPOBB, SIPTKMBER 6, 1910. On London— Bank 4 m/s 2/4 j Demand 2/4 A Private 0 m/s 2/4} do 8 m/s 2/4£ On Germany— Bank d/d 240 Private 8 m/s 244 do 6 m/s 248 On Franco- Bank d/d 296 Private 8 m/s 2994 do 6 m/s
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  • TO-DAY'S STOCKS AND SHARES.
    • 171 5 tone Value. 10 10 Bolat Tin 10 10 BrnsDK 10 10 Brnseh Hyd. 10 10 Kanaboi 41 41 Kinta Tin 41 41 Kledang Tin 10 10 Koantan Tin 41 41 Lataat Mines 41 41 Malaya and Siam 10 10 Malaooa Tin </• Pahan K Congol 41 41 Pengkalen 41
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    • 535 5 Issue !2 Value. Buyers Sellers. 3/- 3/. AUagar 6/0 0/8 2/. 2/- Anglo-Malay 1.5.8 1.68 2/- 1/6 Batang Malaka Hi. 1/. pm £1 £1 Batu Caves 16.17.6 17.6.0 £1 41 Batu Tiga 5 5.0 6.10.0 £1 £1 Bokit K»jang 2.16 0 8.0.0 £1 15/- Contributory 2 0.0 2.6.0 pm
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    • 123 5 Iwne S Value Buyer* Sellers 10 10 Hasten nom. Smelting 10.00 10 7 8.00 41 41 Bloctrio Tramwajn 4/8 4/S 10 10 Fnwer Neave 80.00 35.00 100 Howarth Brskine 68.00 80.00 100 „7% Pref. 87 60 90.00 100 100 KaUßro.Def. 138.00 100 100 a 8% Onzn. Pre L.. num.
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    • 50 5 DEBENTURES Buyers. Seller Howarth BrßkineB% »800,000 par Riley, Har sreaves 8% 1284,000 1% 8% pre. H'trioT'ways 6% £860,000 Singapore Municipal 6% 11,878,000 nom. Buyers. Seller*. Sinnpore Municipal 44% of 1007 $1,800,000 8% T% pro, Singapore Municipal 4i% of 1800 $1,000,000 7% 8% pie Singapore Municipal 4% 1803,900 m. 7% dis.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 13 5 Pot ail lateraal eotoplaints, Dysentery, »JS, Golds, *C- tak» Woods' Great Pepper OM,
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    • 354 5 AUCTION SALES Powell and Co. Sept 7.— At saleroom, unredeemed pledges, at 10. Sept B.— At No. 103, Cross Street, printing presses, etc., at '2.80. Sept 18.— At saleroom, valuable properties, situate at Amoy Stroet, eta, at 2.80. Sept. 18.— At saleroom, valuable property situate at Arab Street, estate of
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    • 420 5 'Embassy' W. D. H. 0. Wills's LATEST SMOKING MIXTURE. IN Jib. PATENT AIR-TIGHT TINS. Price 75 cents per tin. Obtainable at: JOHN LITTLE Co., Ltd. ROBINSON COMPANY. The Standard Life Assurance Co. WE CAN OBTAIN FOR YOU A LIFE POLICY i 1. At Home Rates (Under Double Endowment Plan), or
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    • 205 5 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS, p BOARD AND RESIDENCE lioomfl with a private family. House nicely situated and close to town. Terms moderate. Apply Home, c o Straits Times. 0-2184 AUCTION BALE Of VALUABLE TOWN PROPERTY AND BUILDING LAND, At Scotts Road, On Tuesday, September 13, at 2JO p.m. 1. The land and
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    • 47 5 GRANITE. The undersigned are prepared to enter into contracts for the supply of Granite crushed and acreenod to any sices. FRASER ft CUMMINS. 98. Winoherter Home. NEW PIANOS. High-Class Pianos AT VERY LOW PRICES. GUARANTEED BEST MATERIAL AND MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THIS CLIMATE. 21 8, Orchard Road.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 188 5 WEATHER REPORT. Kaodang Kerbau Hospital, September 4. |9 4. M. pTm) 9 r. Rinrriix. Bar. SJFah .J 29.891 M.T94 39.641 Temp 54.8 87.0 BJ.B Wet Bulb Ther, 81.0 79 0 79 0 HI Dirof Wind S.E S.E. B.E. Max. T«mp (8.6 Mm 70.8 Hu. In San 143.0 Tend. Ther..! 7
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  • 1040 6 The Straits Times. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. THE CONFERENCE CASE. Freedom of contract is essential to the healthy development of maritime trade, and any interference with such freedom should not be attempted unless it is manifestly in the public interest." These word* uttered by Mr. Justice Walton at a conference on
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  • 10 6 Salak South Mines output for last month was 105.7S piouls.
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  • 14 6 The Ooloonda Malay Rubber Company, Limited, announce an interim dividend of 25 per cent.
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  • 26 6 It is arranged that the Rev. J A. B. Cook will preach at Ipoh on Sunday tbe 18th and at Kuala Lumpur on tbe 25th instant.
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  • 18 6 The survivors from the Bedford disaster are due in Hongkong on the P. *nd O. steamer Nubia, to-morrow.
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  • 27 6 A man has been fined ISO at Penang for conoealing a small-pox case near Ayer Itam. It is alleged that he was the oatapaw of a towkay.
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  • 23 6 A meeting of shareholders in the China and Manila Steamship Co., approved the proposal to transfer the Company's steamers to the American flag.
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  • 29 6 The output of cleaa ore for the month of August from the Kinta Association Ltd. was as follows:— Mine 800 picals, tribute 888 pioals, a total of 1,188 piculs.
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  • 33 6 Ng Knk-oho, oompradore to Messrs. Siemssen and Co, in Shameen, Canton, is reported to have absconded, as he has lost in business a capital of over 980,000 and owes a lot of money.
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  • 36 6 The agent of the Royal Pasket Navigation Company at Soarabaya notifies that a num line of steamers will run between Java au J Siain beginning from tbe Ist mat. Tat pioneer vessel Is called the Heimdal.
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  • 13 6 Latest advertisements of the day appear od page 5 as well as 8.
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  • 42 6 On the arrival of tbe steamer Ban Hin Gnan on Saturday, a Chinese woman reported to the police tbat her jewellery, worth 176 guilders, li»d disappears J. What the police think is more likely, however, is that tbe jewellery was gambled away.
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  • 40 6 The Times' correspondent telegraphs from Wellington that indignation has btv>n around by the slaughter of penguins at Macquarie. Thousands bave been killed and thrown into a boiler to be boiled for oil. The Tasmanian Government is enquiring into the matter.
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  • 48 6 Another of 'those entertaining papers on Malay subjects, published by direction of tbe Government of tbe F.M.S., ban appeared. It is part Bof Life and Customs and deals with Malay amusements. Tbe writer is Mr. R. J. Wilkinson. F.M S. Civil Service, the enthusiastic editor of the series.
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  • 52 6 The Times of Malaya says it is rather surprising tbat the Singapore Cold Storage Co. Ltd., have not opened a depot in Ipoh. At the present time tbe frozen meat and other stores ordered by Ipohites have to be ordered through an agent at Teluk Anson, which is a good
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  • 51 6 Tbe output of tin mined on tbe ll»awood Estate for August was 808 piculs, the pro. oeed* of wbioh amounted to 515.18 J. Tbe working eipenses fur the month were about •8,500, leaviog a profit ol about 16,682. Tbe nett revenue from tin mined on the tributo hj stem was
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  • 44 6 The Rev. L. Perricbon, vicar of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pulau Tikus, l'enang. oelebrates his sacerdotal silver j übilee on September 25. The past and present parishioners of Penang, and tbo Peninsula, are presenting him with an illuminated address and a purse.
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  • 50 6 A Straits-born Chinaman was yesterday, in tbe second police court, fintd 1*25 for carrying a pistol without a licence. He had been arrested on a charge of rioting in Garden Street on which charge he is still in cos tody and wben arrested the weapon was found in his possession.
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  • 50 6 For stealing a gold watch, value t45, a gold chain, value 182, a ruby, value rupees 100, a tweed coat, value tl2, and rive silver buttons, value 118, a Macao I'aioamao was sent to prison for eighteen months, with two years' police supervision to follow, by the first magistrate, yesterday.
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  • 45 6 The Government, notwithstanding tbe vacation, has announced its intention of opening the Institute of Journalists Conference proceedings in London, with a luncheon to the overseas members in tbe Royal Gal lnry of tbe Houee of Lords, at which Lord Beauchamp will preside, on Saturday next.
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  • 65 6 Mr. R. C. Stout has reported to tbe police the limh of some clothing belonging to a gentleman who lives with him. This gentle man, a Mr. Maxson, left town recently and gave to Mr. Stout a list of clothing wbioh he was leaving behind Oncompaiiug the list and tbe
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  • 60 6 Two coolies came before Mr. Green, tbis morning, charged with gambling in Jalan Datob, off Balestier Road. Thtir defence was that they, being poepewed of 35 cents bet wet n them, played for the honour of pay ing for tbeir tiffin. The law, however, prohibits even so much excitement io
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  • 62 6 Before leaving by tbe steamer Perak, Mr. E. W. Birch, C. M. G., paid a visit to tbe Singapore Poultry Farm with which he ex. pressed himself very pleas- d, and he purchased a quantity of the prize poultry the farm has, including Kouen ducks, Houdans, Par tridge Wyandottes and
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  • 75 6 In tbe Supreme Court, yesterdty, before Mr. Justioe Fixber, the appeal of Cban Eog Cboon, formerly a police court interpreter, who bad been sentenced by Mr. Firmstone to three months' imprisonment on a charge of having attempted to receive an illegal gratification in the i -sue of a bail bond,
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  • 93 6 For over half an hour this morning tlm dead body of a ricksha ccolie lay exposed to the gaze of the curious publio in the thoroughfare tbat luns down by the Master Attend ant's ofii -c. Tbe unfortunate man, pulling an empty ricksha, bad dropped down dead from sheer exhaustion
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  • 112 6 A Eliog named Antony was out at Seletar on Sunday, with a gun for which, by the way, be bad no licence, looking for something to shoot. A pig ran acroxs his path and Antony fired. The pig dropped but, as luck would have it, some of tbe buckshot spread
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  • 103 6 On tbe sixth of last month a Chinese tramcar conductor was quarantined in a house in whicb a case of concealed smallpox had had been disoovered by the Sanitary Depart ment. Two days later Cbif-f Sanitary Inspector Mayhew met tbe man in Albert Street, anetted him, and sent him to
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  • 416 6 Tbe deatb is announced of Dr. Vance Dean of Melbourne. Mr. Robinson, third magistrate, is ex. pected to return from Ceylon, where be has been convalescing, by the next P. and O, mail boat. Sympathy will be felt with Mr. Eanllej Wilmot, late of tbe Ceylon Civil
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  • 57 6 We sre asked to state that the membr i* of the Teutonia Club will be At Home on Thursday, September 15, wben a ball will be given which is open to members of tbe Taoglin, Dutch, Swiss and Teutonia Clubs. Admission tickets (92) may be obtained
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  • 91 6 The police detective department made a smart capture yesterday. Inspector Nolan visited a house at 2R Hong Lim Mi.rk. i and arrested Fam l'lian and Stub Ah Kye on a charge of being in possession of implements for counteifeiliog currency notes. In the bouse were found a
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  • 113 6 Negotiations have been proceeding for some time post for tbe return of tbe Dalai Lama to Lhama, and it is understood that tbe Lama has expressed his willingness to go back to Tibet provided tbat be is restored to full powers and the Chinese limit tbeir activities within
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  • 120 6 Tbe two gunboats, Wheeling and I'etri I, of the U.S.A. Navy, which were in Singapore teocntly, have arrived in Colombo. Com. maoder Eberle, speaking to a Ce)lon Observer reporter sa d that at Siogap-ue they were trtattd with the utmost cordial'ty, and tbe entertainments arranged
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  • 145 6 Mr. C. E. D. Warry took the obair last evening at a special meeting of the Swimming Club held at the 8 C C. pavilion to consider a scheme for rebuilding tbo damaged pea wall and improving the diving stage. Several U uders had been submitted for
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 104 6 Caldbeck, Macgregor AND COMPANY. Wholesale and Retail WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. JW^fL INDISPENSABLE TO travellers, f* J^^fc Sportsmen, tf)e Home. I Thermos Flask jjji I WILL KEEP ANT KIND OF LIQUID W\ ICY COLD OR BOILING HOT FOR ~dLJL/' John Little Co., Ld. SUCTION GAS WIiY TJSBI hkom Anthracite, Wood
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    • 145 6 ALHAMBRA BBACH BOAD. THE 810 SHOW. Grand Change of Programme To-Nlght. The Master of Mysteries in the Orient, AS3IBTBD BY MISS AERO, IN TBIIS NEW SERIES OF PROBLEMS LEGERDEMAIN, CONCLUDING WITH THE CELEBRATED BOX TRICK (The Feature of this wonderful ferformmanoe is an additional Puzzle which has never before been
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  • 72 7 A DREADNOUGHT DESTROYER DESIGNED. Armed with Sixteen Inch Guns. [Recteb's Telborah.] London, September 6. The Vor waerts says the German Admiralty is constructing a motor driven monitor to deal with Dreadnoughts. It has great speed, low free board, and carries two huge sixteen inch guns, throwing a
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  • 63 7 IMPORTANT LOAN DISCUSSION PROCEEDING. French Conditions About German Orders. (Reutbr's Tblkoram.] London, September 6. The papers state that the Turkish Grand Vizier's interviews with M. Briand and M. Pichon have left the proposed Turkish loan in an unsettled state. M. Pichon insisted that tbe proceeds should not
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  • 35 7 Important Suggestions to Control Capital. [Recteb's Teleoram.] London, September 5. Mr. lift has appointed a Commission to investigate tbe question of giving tbe Interstate Commerce Commision control of future issues of railway securities.
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  • 41 7 Microorganism Hostile to Soil Fertility. Kn l Kli's TeLBORAX.] London, September 6. At the British Association yesterday afternoon Doctors Russell and Hutohinnon announoed the discavery of a microorganism whioh de itroys tbe bacteria that are essential to soil fertility.
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  • 38 7 [Rbctbr's Tblboram] London, September 5. There is great distress at Stoakpart owing tv the closing, for seven weoks, of cotton mills employing 1,300 hands. This has been necessary in coniequeuse of bad trade with India.
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  • 26 7 [Rictbr's Tbleoram] London, September 6. A Constantinople telegram says that preparations are proceeding at Damascus for a Turkish expedition against the Diuies.
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  • 26 7 (Dbr Ostasutischx Lloyd Telegram Berlin, September 6. Herr Kidderlen was present at the reoepI on at tbe Palace given in honour of Lord Roberts.
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  • 40 7 [Dm Ostasutiscbi Lloyd Tileoram.] Berlin, September 5. The Porto' has declared that for tbe present it is satisfied with the assurances of the Powers in reference to Crete, and quietly awaits the development of events at Athens.
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  • 22 7 [Drb Ostasiatischi Lloyd Tblbobam.J Berlin, September 6. The Russian Budget for 1911 shows eonsierable expenditure in exoess of ordinary requirements.
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  • 26 7 [DmOstasutischi Lloyd Telegram.] Berlin, September 5 Tbe Norddeatsche Zeitong says that rumours of an interview between the Kaiser and tbe Czar are premature.
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  • 25 7 DIX O9TASUTISCHB LIOTD TbLEQRAM Berlin, September 5. Tbe Emperor Menelik, reported dead some time ago, is still alive, bat is suffering from fits.
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  • 55 7 The Kuala Lnmpar el°ctric light service hai not bo far prjved remunerative. Upwards of •50.000 win up* nt daring last year, bringing the total to date up to orer a million dollars. Tae net income for last year ni under $20,000, or 1 8 per cent., and this was without
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  • 97 7 Messrs. Hogg and Cos. Quotations To-day. Messrs. Hogg and Co. kindly favour us with the London prices they have received this morning Quotations. Middlr Middle Prick*. prices. Allagars 5/9 Linggis 64/8 Anglo-Malays 26/6 Lumnta 25/- p. Bukit Kajaoga 55/- Merlimaus 7 Bukit Mertajams 8/6 Patalings 66/8 Chersonese
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  • 346 7 Newcastle of Less Tonnage But of Greater Speed. The cruiser Newcastle, which has beou ordered to replace the lost Bedford, on the China Station, is only just completing con struction, having been laid down at Klswick in 1909. She is one of the five town class of
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  • 456 7 Cat 0' Nine Tails Suggested as a Remedy. Tbe funeral of the policeman, Pelleter, who, while in plain clothes, was shot dead in tbe Rue Reaumer, Paris, in attempting to arrest a cattle "laTV'hterer named Renard, who had just wounded another policeman seriously, has taken place.
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  • 82 7 The custom? authorities -in New York have made fruitless searches of German liners owing to a notification that an attempt would be made to smuggle £150,000 worth of African diamonds. The authorities are now paying attention to British vessels. A novel raid was made on August 26, on tbe second,
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  • 495 7 THE BACHELOR SOVEREIGN IS INTERVIEWED. Kingdom Without Police. Sidney the First, the new King of the Cocoa Keeling It-lands, has been busily j eDgaged in London with thu administration of the affairs of the late King, bis father, whose estate has just been proved at the
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  • 329 7 Claims of the Sections of Shipyard Operatives The Times, of August 6. prints the following particulars of the shipbuilding dispute Of tbe two sections of shipyard operatives who stopped work last week on board a steamer which is being repaired by Messrs. Henderson, of Partick, one the
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  • 174 7 The Singapore Catholic Funeral Association. The following is the programme of a variety entertainment to be eiven, under the auspices o; the Singapore Catholic Associa tion, in aid of the hearse fund at the Viotoria Theatre to-morrow evening. Part I. Overture, Poet and Peasant, piano, Mrs. W. M.
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  • 29 7 The German battleships KurfuratFriedrioh Wilhelm and AV-issenburg which were re oeotly sold to Turkey for £900,C00 were launched in 1891, and served in the Boxer expedition m Ohm i
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  • 786 7 PROMINENCE OF SPECULATORS ON LONDON MARKET. Abnormal Movements. Robber, the raw material, touched 6s. 3d. per lb. (or fine hard Para on Tuesday last, says the Economist of August 18. Two days later it was op to 9s. Bd. per lb. In the Stock Exchange, to give one
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  • 141 7 Gratitude of tbe Malay States Guides. Writing under date August 7, from tbe P. and O. steamer Nors, off Malta, Subadar Fatch Singh, adjutant of the Malay States Guides detachment which visited the National Rifle Association meeting nt Bisley, says: Tbe members of the Malay States Guides
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  • 89 7 The Legislative Counoil meets again on Friday next, wben the Chinese Immigrants' Ordinance Amendment bill will be intro duccd. Several measures are set down for consideration in committee, including the Final Supply, Divorce, Freight and Steam snip, Labuan Crown Lands, Statute Laws and Weights and Measures Bills. There
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  • 233 7 Correction of a Libel on German Merchants. On May 24, we quoted from the Evening Standard (London) a statement about certain methods wb&h the correspondent of that paper allfgrd were helping Otrman merchants to increase their trade at the expense of British rivals. This quotation appears to
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  • 248 7 Military Searchlight Thought to be Responsible. The P. and 0. mail steamer Ooeana arrived at Bombay, on August 28. It is stated that the first part of her voyage from London till after Marseilles was left behind proved pleasant and uneventful. On entering the Straits
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  • 471 7 Messrs. Samuel Montagu and Co s Weekly Report. Messrs. Samuel Montagu and Co., write from London on August 11. Of the £550,000 which arrived in bar gold, about £250,000, was bought for New York, the remainder was divided between the Con tinent and India (£147,000;. A million
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  • 93 7 Mr. Roosevelt was tbe principal attraction at a cowboys' carnival at Cheyenne on August 27. He reviewed five thousand regulars and coloured cavalrymen who fooght in Cuba to aether with war painted braves. A Japanese delegation which was present ►houted Banzi. Mr. Roosevelt in a
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  • 68 7 GERMAN OFFICER ARRESTED AT PORTSMOUTH. Sketching the Fortifications. [RbUTBR's TeLEORAM.] London, September 6. Tbe Evening News saya that a subaltern in a German Pioneer regimeut was arres'cd yesterday alteruoou in the art of sketching the fortification at Portsmouth. It will bo remembered that two English men were arrested in
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  • 131 7 Heavy Claim for Damages Commenced At Penang. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, September 6. An important action has baen opened at the Supreme Court arising out of a series of l«ge transactions in tin about two and a half years ago. Messrs. Strauss and Company.of London, through
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  • 50 7 (Fro* Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, September 6. The following scores were made in tliu shoot for the Milla Trophy by the P.nang Ladies Rille Association Miss Thornton 89 Mrs. Langham Carter 14 Miss Mclntyre 34 Mrs. Hamilton 38 Miss J. Smith 88 Mies Huxley 82 Total 201
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  • 35 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, September 6. The following tin outputs for August aru notified Gopiog 725 piculs, Now Gopcng ISO, Rambutan 300. Kledang 175, Kinta 475, Pengkalen 650, Tekka 525.
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  • 462 7 Messrs. F. W. Barker and Co. send us the following returns The Sandycroft Rubber Company. Ltd., August, 1910, 9,3(H lbs dry. August. 1909, 5 056 lbs. dry, total for first seven months of financial year 48 587 lbs. dry, and total for corresponding period last yew 29,6(8
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  • 50 7 A dangerous accident has occurred in India on tbe road bttween Balial in the Sind Valley and Amarnath Caves, to an Aim ncm. lady, who fell into a crevasse while crossing the snow. The lady was luckly sived by her servant", who let down their puggarees to hersmd palled- ber-upr-*
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 79 8 Yesterday afternoon, tbe tournament at tbe Ladies Lawn Tennis Club ground was brought to a conolosion when the championHbip pairs were won by Miss Gunn and Mr. Gaunt from Mrs. Gansloser and Mr. Miles, by «t, 6—o. There was a large gathering to watch the match, which
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    • 141 8 S. C. C. Tournament. The final match of the 8. C. C. cricket tournament was played on Saturday, when the Law and Civil Servioe fell cany victims to the Telegraph Co., as under Law and Civil Servicr. Broadrick b Gray 0 Whitley 0 Lenthall b Jenkins 4 Zehnder b
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    • 442 8 S. C. C. Tournament. The following conditions of the Veterans Doable Handicap are forwarded for publication:— This event is open tn active members of the 8. C. C, who aru of the age of 40 years and orar with 1'- years residence in the Far East 'after theage
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  • Correspondence.
    • 97 8 To the Editor of The Straits Time*. Sir,— l read your leader in yesterday's issue with great interest, especially the latter halt. I think it would be very interesting to boar what answer the supporters of tbe Shipping Conference have to make to your arguments which appear
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    • 187 8 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— Dr. Galloway's statement that conference steamers never go to the wharves to load cargo never in fact go there when they find it more convenient not to, leads one to wonder whether Or. Galloway p»ys
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    • 345 8 To the Editor of the Straits Times, Sir,— Surprise baa been felt and expressed that there rhould be any idea of abandoning our work in Singapore, as some have supposed that the Presbyterian Church was wealthy with practically unlimited means behind it. But the phrase Presby
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    • 398 8 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— l beg to contribute a few remarks on the question raised by Mr. Edlin with ref erenoe to the conversion of Singapore Govern ment leaseholds. I agree with Mr. Edlin 's suggestion that something might be done in the
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  • 760 8 Prices Quoted la tbe Market Ibis Morning. Singapore, Septomber 6th, lttlO. Messrs. Lyall and Bvatt. Exchange and Share Brokers, issue tbe following list of quotations this morning I— Norn. Value. Bayer*. Seller*. 2/- AUagar 5/4* 0,3 8/- Option* 8/9 6/6 XI Anglo-Java 12/8 18/8 1 Anglo Johore
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 12 8 WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND. OF ALL CHEMISTS. $1.25 AND $2.00
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    • 55 8 When an old codger shivers and shakes, As he bears the wild winter winds roar, The ancient mistake be continues to make) And swallows hot mm in galore Till some friend like an angel of light, Introduces a solace more sure, Ha soothes his old throttle by bhsfilntf a bottle
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    • 219 8 Agri-Horticultural 1910. S*^l w^jvere AWARDED v/O^/ Ist Prize A Gold Medal y/1 for xmf^^x RUBBER MACHINERY X V/ .W BERTRAMS, Ltd., X% *y SCIENNES, EDINBURGH. S Sole Agents: X S y&X diploma /Lf&kJ^^' WAS ALSO awari>f:d for X^/^ The Best General Exhibit of Engineering. CALL AT Moutrie's FOR THE PIANO
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    • 424 8 KRATOKSEED AND COWPEAB. These plants will kill weeds (lalang, otc and will serve as a manure themselves. Immediate delivery f. 0. b. Soerabaja. Apply to B. A. Wolff, Soerabaja. Address for telegrams A'olff, PaouKOODt.', Soerabaja." •2187 RUBBER EBTATEB FOR SALE. The well known Estate* BANDJARSARIE and TOEOOESARIK, distriot Djember. Java.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 94 9 FUSSELL'S Milk Cream. Butterfly Brands. Sole Agents Paterson, Simons Company, Ltd. LIPS' SAFES. The Beet Fin, and TTI B E^fflll H*he* te*i»onial. Burglarr suiting Sates I I BBC M *JIU IT^ in the market !\M| I GOTe men Md For particular, and prices, INTERNATIONALE CREDIETEN apply to Sole Importer.: HANOELSVEREENIGING
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    • 233 9 r <*gy^Js^' .Y^^^^^j^^3s|pPjfMß^^ x < A. W. Tully AND COMPANY. Turf Accountants. NOW DOING BUSINESS ON THE FORTHCOMING SINGAPORE MEETING. Treble Event Double Events Straight out all Events, BOOK OPEN ON The St. Le^er Run Wednesday, September 7. For particulars and prices, apply to SS, RafHee Plaoe, Singapore. TeU. "Tolly,"
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    • 597 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. INDOCHINA STEAM NAY. CO., LTD. Taa stsamars of this Company maintain a ragnlar direct servloe between Calcutta, BtralU, aoagkoag, Rhangtial and Japan, taking oargf through BMj of Lading for Canton, Swatow, imoy, Ohefoo, Tientsin. Newohwang, Taagtsss Ports, Formosa, the Philippine*, ao.. *o Tons Oommandsr Kenaaa «,8M B. O.
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    • 754 9 STEAMEI, SAILINGS. ARCHIBALD CURRIES AUSTRALIAN INDIAN LINE BINBAPORE TO JAVA PORTS. MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY. aLSO TAKING CARGO FOB OTHBR AUSTRALIAN AND NBW ZBALAND PORTS (with transhipment) as indnocment offers. A regular five weekly service is maintained by the two British steamers Boryaloa," 8,670 tons, (Captain Lyoa Instone) and "Oraoohas" 8,750
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  • 848 10 STORY OF EXPLOSION ON THE SUBMARINE Al. Seven Men Injured. The Portsmouth correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writing on August 7. says i Submarine Al, which met with each a terrible disaster off Spithead a few years aso, was on Saturday the scene of an explosion of petrol
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 945 10 INSURANCE. CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., LTD. Head Office I Bhan((hal. Kegistertd un^--- aba Life Assurance CcmpaniesJ Acts, England, and under the Hongkong Ordin.nc OF COMPANY ((Twelfth Year). Total Insuraact in force $57,8 M,888. Total As** eMEsVaES' Total Funds S'2l2S2* Total Inoorx2 tor Year AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE EAST. All forms
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    • 531 10 BMIKINfI. IHMTERED BANK 8F INDIA. AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. dOOBFOBATJU) BI BOYAL CHARTBK raM np Oapltti ta 10,000 Baarai at sW each M M M f11.100,000 iaserve Fail 11,800,000 gsservi lilabtUty ot ProprUtori i 1.100,000 BABSBBB. Baak ol SagUai. ■atteaal Baak of Booelaai. C»« koaloa Ony MUUaa Baak, »M. BIBQAPORB BBASCH,
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    • 133 10 MORTGAGEE'S SALE Of PRINTING PRESSES, CHINESE NEWSPAPER TYPES, IRON SAFE, ETC., At No. 108, Cross Street, On Thurtday, September 8, at 830 p.m. POWELL k CO., Auctioneers. 2118 ESTATE OF KASSIM BIN EBRAHIM MYSOOREB, DECEASED. AUCTION SALE Of VALUABLE PROPERTY SITUATE AT ARAB STREET, SINGAPORE TOWN, To be held at
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    • 698 10 SALES BY AUCTION. 400 IjOTS, AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE TEAK HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, COTTAGE PIANO, WELL-GROWN PUNTS, ETC. THE PROPERTY OF DR. E. DE VOS, At No. 5, St. Thomas Walk (off River Valley Road), On Saturday, September tO, at 2 p.m. Excellent toned COTTAOE PIANO RV M. F. RACHAL^ k
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    • 519 10 LAND SALE At Messrs, U. L. Coghlan I Co.'s Saleroom* On Monday, Sep'cvihrr If, nt 2 30 p Valuable 09 years' Leasehold Property described in the Government He-survey as Lot No. -9, Sub-division No. 8, Singapore Town, Area '2.762 square feet, together with the two houses thereon situate and bcine
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  • 754 11 MOTORS MOTORING. NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS. The compilation of the new automobile directory shows that there are sixty odd different makes of motor can in Manila, a surprise to even those who are most familiar with the field. A striking illustration of the advantage and economy in owning
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  • 286 11 Carious Story Related By Sir F. C. Burnand. Sir F. C. Burnand, writing to the Daily Telegraph, tells of a onrions coincidence which happened on the day he received news of the death of Linloy Samboorne. On the morning of Wednesday, August 3, writes Sir Francis, I
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 332 11 WOLSELEY SIDDELEY MAX^» LTD/ Ji ITAOAQC THEXAMBISTHE MU I V/V/Ml\W. GUARANTEE. SOLE A<iENTS FOR WOLSELEV SIDDELEY AUTOCARS In Singapore, Penang, F. M. S. and Sumatra CENTRAL ENGINE WORKB, TSSyTHE MOTOR AND CARRIAGE WORKS. MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE DAY OR NIBHT. General Repairers of Cycles, Motorß, Cnls, Magneto, etc. Cycles and
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    • 11 11 Woods' Great Peppermint Com toe all internal eomplaiata, Dfuntmj. Ooo«h« OaldHata.
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    • 318 11 "PURUB THE roTAS !L SYND|CAT Special Rubber Mixture, (P&tGntCd) OTHER MANURES IN STOCK the new coagulant Sulphate of Potash. Muriate oi Potash. ADVANTAGES. Superphosphate. 1. Simplicity ol treatment. gnlphate of Ammonia 2. Saving of time. The robber is at once Basic Slag. ready lor transport. Bonemeal. 8. Superior quality ol
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 630 12 WANTS. SCRIPT SHORTHAND. We teach the Script system of shorthand because it is by far the easiest to learn and tbe most rapid in use. For tree prospectuß, apply to I C. S. General Agenoy, 27, Byed Ah Road, Singapore DEMtRCATOR WANTED. Wanted, Ik marcator for Rubber Estate in British
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    • 569 12 TO BE LET OR SOLD. ROOMB TO LET. At Zetland House (Armenian Street). Apply on tbe premises. u4OB HOUSES TO BE LET. With immediate entry, 44, Anaon Road. 78-8, Anson Road, and 80 and 26, Robinson Road. Apply to B. S.Nathan, 18, Change Alley. m TO BE LET. No. 54,
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    • 442 12 TO BE LET QR SOLD. COMPOUND HOUSE TO LET. No. 8, Adis Road, off Sophia Road, up the hill immediate entry. Apply to A. S. Shooker, 7. V Almeida Street HOUSE TO LET. From October 1, 85, GRANGE ROAD (unfunished). Apply for rent and particulars to Mr. J. C. Koopman.
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    • 688 12 NOTICES. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Tenders for tbe right to open Pawn-shops in various localities in Singapore for a period of three years from the Ist January, 1911, will be received at the Co'onial Secretary's Office up to noon on the 80th September, 1910. Foims of tender and full particulars may be
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    • 760 12 NOTICES. NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Power of Attorney granted to Mr. M. 8. Aboobacker by us has been revoked as from August 80, 1910. ISMAIL AND RAHEEM. 2097 STRAITS STEVEDORES AND CO. Contractors of Labour and Provisions for vessels. Loading and discharging heavy lifts, general cargo and
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    • 506 12 NOTICES. NOTICE. Lost or stolen, a certified transfer for one bundrfd Jimah Shares, numbered *****1 to *****0 in the name of A. A. Gunn, Esq Koply to Broker, c o Straits Times. NOTICE. NOTICE IS HERBBY GIVEN that all persons wishing to visit the undermentioned Estates must first obtain permission
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 242 12 Straits V)imes. ADVERTISEMENT RATES.—Miscellane ous wants of every description are injert ed at the prepaid rate of II per foul lines for one or two insertions. Notices ot Births, Marriages, or Deaths, it not exceeding four lines, tl each insertion For p.p.c. cards, on page 6, $2. Inch Scali Rates
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