The Straits Times, 22 May 1915

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    13 1 The Straits Times NO. 24.805 SINGAPORE. SATURDAY. MAY 22. 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      280 1 ■f^? 1 A FEW GOOD THINGS fi^gS LIBBYS ASSORTED SOUPS ~j?i/ 'i^ n cases °f tins, say, one month's supply. The assortment VH: is made up from the following Soups TOMATO, MOCKTURTLE, OXTAIL, CHICKEN, MULLIGATAWNY and VEGETABLE. A tin makes six plates of the 'va l best Soup you ever
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      183 1 ROBINSON 4fc CO. SOLE AGENTS FOR IN SINGAPORE AND BORNEO DISTRICTS. Stocked in all I if^X''- Egyptian, Virginian, and qualities. ■> Turkish Leaf. VIRGINIA CIGARET IES Sj |b^f EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES No. 1 in tins of 50s 60 Cts. No. 16 Medium 50s 80cts. No. 7 „25s 35 iiJ^Wl Nol4Lar S
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      10 1 I JEFFREY'S PILSENER BEER. Soli Aoknts: AOAMSON. 6ILFILUN CO., LTD.
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    Cromlix Rubber.
    1256 2 EXCELLENT REPORTS FROM THE ESTATE. Low Capital Cost. The fifth ordinary general meeting of the Cromlix Rubber Estate and Produce Syndicate, Limited, was held at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Moorgate Place, E.C., on April 18, Mr. James L. Austrntber (chair man of the company) presiding. Tbe Chairman
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    RUBBER ESTATES OF JAVA.
    502 2 No Call for Further Working Capital. The report of the British Robber Estates of Java, Limited, states that three-quart* rs ot the expenditure on maintenance, clearing, cultivation and general development have been charged to revenue account this year, as compared witli two thirds in the last
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    Strategic Lines in Australia.
    262 2 The war has turned Australia's attention again to tbe question of a uniform gauge for the railways of the Commonwealth, and, in addition to this, to the need for strategic lines for the rapid movements of- troops. "We do not want to interfere with the States
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    Seafield Rubber Company.
    232 2 The report of the Sea tie Id Rubber Company, Limited, states that the profit for the year amounted to £46,905, and, after making the appropriations and adjustments appli cable to 1918 and paying two interim dividends of 10 per cent, each (less income taxi, there remains, including
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      522 2 NOTICES. oriental telephone and electric co.. Ltd. NOTICE TO TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBERS. A new Telephone I'inctory is now in eonrse of preparation and Telephone Sob(oribers are reqacsttd to advibe the Company, by letter to the acting Managtr, befOr« tS SI at instant, of any alterations or additions neeer sary to the
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      321 2 WHYNOmVE ACLEARSKIN CUTICURA SOAP Used exclusively and Cuticura Ointment occasionally will promote and maintain a clear skin, free from pimples, blackheads, and other unsightly eruptions. Samples Free by Post < ut i' urn Soap and otniinrat boM fry w her?. Samtrir of each with 32-p. book free from nramt depot:
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      599 2 WHAT MIKES WOMEN UNFIT? Natnre'a best handiwork nover wan intended to hi htnriioapr ed by iilm »t an so many womon are Nature's mtintion nevt r m that women rhonld be lens free and capable, as women, tb*n men are aa men. Yet how frequently yoong girls, bu»inefn women, boo'ewives
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      289 2 Made in Dublin BOTTLED FOR DIRECT EXPORTATION B y READ BROTHERS, Limn* CUkteiaNlP Dog's Mead Guinness •OLD EVEftYWHCAE. ORDER IN FAMILY PACKAGES H THE STRAITS TIMES Can be obt ined at tbe folk wing placi s in Singapore i Tbe Asiatio Fubber and Prcdace Co., ISO, Cecil Street. Kelly and
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    Diary of the War.
    1118 3 1814. June 27.— Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and bis consort at Serajevo. July 25.— Austrian ultimatum Bent to Servia August 1. Germany declares war on Russia and France, and invades Belgium. 4. Britain declares war on Germany. 28.— Battle of Mons begins, and the French
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    POPULATION OF JAPAN.
    322 3 Returns for Sixty-Nine Chief Cities. Tbe following is a list of the citien of Japan arranged in order of size. Where there has been an increase of more than 5.000, the numoorg for 1908 are also given. Tbis list in compiled from the official record of the
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      598 3 ITS AS 8000 TO-DAY MW WHEN I BOUGHT IT!" //jLfl Tbali i npreaaion oonwoa *s QVtfAN users of tl "BWAN" Pjuntasß— f/fl/// WflUn tboMv.tol?Masedtbeir"SWAir i^JKOr j||K for aay pel tod from oae wee* ap J^dt.Jfl to x> »an thiak <* »^yW Does not clog or dry up. Mm same pea
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      142 3 SAKURA After all there W^ W^ it Brewed is no doubt U 1^ %J f rom oEly Best tbat tbis JL^ MmJ MmJ 1\ Malt and Hop*. The name "SAKURA" on a bottle is like the Hallmark on silver guaranteeing its Excellence and Purity. Sole Agents: ANN LOCK CO., Battery
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      500 4 STEAMER SAILINGS^ ?r& o. STEAM NAVIGATION CO. FOR CHINA, JAI'AN, PBNANO, CBVLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADBN, BOYPT MBDITBRRANBAN PORTS. PLY MOUTH AND LONDON. Through Billb of Lading issued for Ohina Coast, Persian Oulf, Continental and American Ports. Stoamers will leavo Singapore on or about MAIL LINES Hommttrd (for Europe). i Connecting
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      533 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. N. Y.~K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. EUROPEAN LINE. A servioe is maintained between Yokohama via ports to Marseilles, London and Antwerp, under mail oontraot witb the Imperial Japanese Government. Tbe New Twin-screw Steamers maintaining this service have been specially designed and oonstruoted, and are fitted with all
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      755 4 BTEAMER SAILINGS. THE SIAM STEAM NAVWATI9N CO.. LD, SINGAPORE-BANGKOK. For Kretay, Tringnanu, Bisat. Semerak, Kelantaa, Tabai, bscgnara, Telapin, Patani, Siogora. Laooa\ Koli«amni, Bandon, Lang-meo, Taka, Ohnmpon, Kohlak and Bangkok Dim Oapsptura a.a. BORIBAT May B 4 May SB, 8 p.m. a.*). ASDANG SI June 8, 3 p.m. ss. PIUCHATIPOK and
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      619 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO. LIMITED. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAY. CO.. LTD The Companies' steamers are despatohod bom Liverpool outwards for the Straus, China and Japan every week and from Japan homewards for London Amsterdam and Antwerp every fortnight; for Genoa. Marseille* and Liverpool and for Marseilles, Havre
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      620 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. BTOOMVURT-MUTBCHAPPM (STBAIiCSHIP COMPANY) "NEDERLAND 1 KDRTNIGHTLY MAIL SBRVICB BBTWBBN J/.VA AND AMSTERDAM VIA SINGAI'ORK, BELAWAN DBLI SABANO. COLOMrJO, PORT SAID AND OBNOA. Steamers are dan on or about the undermentioned dateL Outward Homswabd. 1916 1019 Prins d Ned. May U8 Koningin d. Prioses Juliana Ned. May 29 Jane
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    GERMAN SAVAGERY.
    824 5 Terrible Experience of a Wounded Russian. The Moscow correspondent of The Evening Standard writes as follows For the last four months Private Mannin has been a patient in a local hospital. A bandage covers bis left eye, or rather the place where tlio eye once was; ceaseless noises
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    HOMELESS KINGS.
    340 5 Problem of Westminster Hall Statues. Tbe stvcn Htatues of Kid^h which were originally in WentuiinsUr Hall are at present without a permanent home. The moDuments were accepted by the City Corporation as a loan in perpetuity, but since- thin th" City Fathers have been at tlitir wits' en
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      611 5 NO. 5 ROYAL V\ II The Master Model. ,^^gfc $170. tfi9£3^^3 Bb Defies Competition. a^flß H) Supplanting all other \\^B H-Wy// Makes Sole Agent* for 8. 8. •F.M. 8. vPSSutfeW HUTTEHB CH BROS STEAMER SAILINGS. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATBCHAPPM Royal Packet Navigation Co.. of Batavia. '2-8, CoUyor Quay. UNDKK oONT-.ALi 1
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      113 5 ELLERMAN ft BUCKN ALL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR THE PHILIPPINES. City or Naples j will be despatched on or about May 30. For particulars of freight, etc., apply to McALISTER ft CO., LTD. Agents. 80-13 Wl3 16 BRiriBH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. LIMITED. FOR HORT SWETTENHAM AND PENANG. Tbe Ccrupan>N
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      332 5 CHOP CHIN GUAN. 72, Boat Quay. NOTICE. We beg to call the attention of the Public that we are wholesale and retail dealers in all the best and favourite liquors, etc. We are suppliers to the 5.5., F.M.S., British North Borneo and Dutch Ports for several j years and have
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      208 6 POINTS EUftOMM WOMHMtRI* MIV RESPMIIVE I I SOU! TOUCH «00D Cfttt 1 FIIIUED T** DiTalLt i WHICH SHOULD IN a^^to. G£ vol; VIDKM lIN KVRm sSr^WMfl^' CFBTAIN OF OBTAINING GOOD PIANO am "^tP^S&GaS^t 1 ie vof vuechasi from the ROBINSON PIANO co.. Ltd. VISIT OUR SHOW-ROOM and JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
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      70 6 fa ft Mass of Letterpress AN INTERESTING PICTURE is sure to arrest the Reader's attention AND THAT IS THE ESSENCE OF EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING THE STRAITS TIMES PRESS, LTD., now offer Facilities for the production of illustrative Half-Tone and Line Blocks Specimens and Prices on Application to THE MANAGER. FI S
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      437 6 What IS the matter with your Piano? WRITS op PHONE to H. C HUDSON Late of Robinson Pinna Co. WHO WILL. ATTEND TO IT AT BOTTOM PRICE FOR TIP TOP WORK. ALL LATBST APPLIANCES. EXPERT WORKMANSHIP. Tel. ÜBS Bailor* Home Singapore 6 6-B 6 8 LATEST ADVI WANTEP. Ad office
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      262 6 ERTISEMENTS INDOCHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.. LTD. FOR PENANG AND CALCUTTA. The Company's Steamor KUMSANO, F. Wbte'er, Commando', ii due here on Tmsday, 26th iu'taut, and will bo despatched .'or the above pcrte, on Thursday, the -Tib idem at 4 p.m. She has excellent accommodation for firstclass passengers, am.dsbipo, carrit s
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    DAIIY TIME TABLE
    114 7 DAILY TIME TABLE FIXTURES. Saturday. May 22. High Water. Ml a.m., 4.40 p.m. Kaoes, (tbird day), llrotesquex, Palladium. Sunday, May 23. High Water. M am, 5.38 p.m. Whit Sunday. M. M. outward mail expected. Monday, May 24. High Water, Mi p.m., 8.32 p.m. Hank Holiday. < >pera Company, Palladium. Tuesday,
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    SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE.
    182 7 To-DAT. Ratu I'aliat M.-ua 2 pin Malacca. I. Swcttcnliam and Penally Klans; 2 pm \naiLhn ;ind Natnoa Is. B. \Vh;itt Hin J pm M,.1.,u Circe 2 pm Selat I'audjans:, Beugkalin. Siak and l'*knn I! MM l.rouwer 2 pm Honykoni; and .lapaa Renlomond Bpm Kota Tin^yi lienuit 4
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    Nail Steamer Movement
    103 7 Mail Steamer Movements. The M. M. outwanl steamer Chili left Culombo at 7 pm. on Weinesday, M.iy 19, ac'l in ly bo avaMkefl to arrive bore at about 6 a.m. on Monday, May 24. I' anil homeward mail steamer Nubia left Huc^knnK. au'l may be exptcled to arrive here at
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    72 7 . Latest Arrivals Liit of ti»- U in port at 10 a.m. on May 21. 1915. Japanese. I u.i M.iru 5 If Outer KjhIm N.UM, Date of Arrival Kemarks. nanu .lyplM M..1ll.iDK Aik t;, unit Hock Tew Sanit II.K-k Hit fata •tri Must 6 M •n s 15 Inner
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    68 7 Tbe other day a man iu< t Ml 'U;*tli htm in an txtraui liunry manner, Rays a writer i.t TtTabunan Bok>H in tli, Hnlish Nortli Botmu Herald A boy uf ten thivw a baiuboo htick. not half id ioch iu width. at a |'<«. I'tio luiMsilr ylaucf<l (itT a -limiting
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    LIST OF PASSENGERS.
    245 7 Outward. The following passenger bookings to the Straits are taken from the London and China Express. It should be understood that, in some instances, bookings may be provisional and that intending passengers may alter their arrangements, subsequent to the issuanoe of this list in London: fir 11,I
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    CHURCH SERVICES.
    540 7 Sunday, May 23, 1915. Sr. AM'KEw's Cathedral. Wliitsun Day, 'SO a m. Holy Communion 7.30 ,iiu. Holy Communion (Choral); 10.30 a.m. Choral Matins and 44eMM 1 a.m. Holy Communion 4 p.m. Children's Service 5.30 p.m. Festal Evenaong and Sermon. St. MaMhewV. Sepoy Lines; 915 a.m. Holy Communion 8.16
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    SINGAPORE AMUSEMENTS.
    110 7 We do not know who Olga Carew was, but the killiug of her pruvi lex the impetus for a pmbli nntic.il w nsstiuu in tin- bill of tho t'asino \>y tbe Sea to ni^lit. In two reels is ■afeUsd an i'U. tiMucns story of mystery and crime. lurumi.l.
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    i FINANCE AND COMMERCE
    161 7 FINANCE AND COMMERCE. EXCHANOE. Sinoapori, May 22, 1915. On London Bank 4 m/s 2/4 Demand 2,4 Private 3 m/s 2/4,] On India Bank T. T. 174 On Hongkong... Bank d/d 20 1 On Shanghai ...Bank d/d 99j On Java Bank T. T. 141} On Japan Bank d/d 114 Sovereigns buying
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      MINING.
      197 7 10 10 Ampan* 7/0 780 1 1 AyerWbnjf 0.3d C.45 10. 10 Belat 2.4S 260 10 10 BnuoK 0.-o 075 10 10 Kampai 6.00 10 10 Kanaboi 1.00 1 SO 10 10 Kinta Association 7.00 41 41 EintaTin 1.14 0 1.17.0 £1 SI Lahat Miner 8.75 4.25 10 8.25
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      RUBBER.
      638 7 1 Buyers. Value (2 2/- 3/- AUagai 1/10^ 41 41 Anulo Java 4,8 2/- a/- Anglo-Malay 8/- 2/- Batang Maiafea /10 £1 £1 Bate Tiga 2 0.0 2/- BekoU 1/2* £1 41 Bokit Kajang 1.U.6 41 £1 But. l Liutang 2.16.0 il- 2/- Bokit Mertajam 2 £1 41 Bukit
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      GENERAL
      139 7 . vXi Bu y ere **"<**■ 41 41 B. Sme »in R Co. 13,0 14/ 41 41 Prof 1.5.0 1.8.0 6/- 6/- Electric T'waya 2,9 8/ 10 10 Fraser k Ne»ve 51.75 62 M 60 60 Hammer k Co. 105.00 115.00 100 Howartb Krgkine 80.00 100 7% Prof. 05.00 100
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      DEBENTURES.
      45 7 S'pote Municipal H% of 1900 ll.OO'i.oOC Dom S'pon- Municipal 4% 2,000,0* 10% di» S pore Municipal 4% £300,001 W United Engineers 0% 11,284 500 norn Singapore Bloc trio Tramways 5* £850,000 ooui Spore Municipal 5% 11,878,000 norn Spore Municipal 4J% of 1907 11,000,000 norn
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      73 7 *DCTIO> SALES Powell and Co. May 25. At (■aleroom, nix Wincliesttr s. (ilenroy," at 11. May At The Kin'"". No. 80 A, Kiilmt-y Koad, Household furniture. I'iano, etc., at l.:«). ChlriK Kenic Lee anj C i May '2'>. At saleroom, valuable resuleatial property at Scottft It >v\. at 2.30. June
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      77 7 "SPRINGBOK" THE OENUINE BOER TOBACCO. Manufactured from the finest Magaliesberg Tobacco. OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE in 4-oz. SEALEO BAGS. MACHINERY FOR MINES, QUARRIES, SAWMILLS, POWER STATIONS. FRASER CHALMERS, LIMITED, SINGAPORE and IPOH. BELTING (DICKS') Original Balata JBS £IT w\ EDGES **o B? j-^ ■>»v STEADY Tbese Belts c»n bs run in any
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      87 7 »*«The quotations of sterling shares mast bj regarded as purely nominal for the present. DURING THE RACE SEASON AT THE HARIIHA HALL CINEMATOGRAPH North Bridge Road. TO-NIGHT! 8.16 TO-NIOHTM A THRILLING DETECMVE DRAMA! GentlemanT a B^l M— J^. 1 Jljf Thler IN 3 ACTS. Thu film introduces Novel Plots tod
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    DEATH
    27 8 Bkh<,man. -On the 20th iost., at the Nursing Home, St. Thomas's Walk, Frederick Charles Bergman, the third son of George Edward Bergman of Brondesbury Park, London.
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    The Straits Times. SATURDAY. MAY 22. POLITICAL COMBINE.
    1067 8 The Straits Times. SATURDAY. MAY 22. POLITICAL COMBINE. If anyone bad dared to predict that Arthur Balfour and Henry Asqnith, or Lloyd i i urge and Austin Chamberlain would Bit in tin same cabinet, such a prophet would have been laughed to scorn. And yet it seemn quite possible, nay
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    12 8 The output of the I'lu Piah mine for April was 400 piculs.
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    17 8 Mr. OL H. Niven, of Malacca, has given fourteen guineas to the Overseas i lob Aircraft Fund.
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    11 8 Latest advertisements of tue day appear on page 6 and 11.
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    18 8 The offices of Director of External Audit and Accountant and Superintenient of Registration (Post Office) are declared pensionable.
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    24 8 The amount subscribed in Shanghai to the Prince of Wales's Fund up to April 80 is as follows:— Tls. 1,678.67; |*****.8«; remitted home, 1,000.
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    29 8 The Sea View hotel are providing Indian curry tittins on Sunday and Saturday, and they wish it to be known that these special tiffins will be provided every Sunday.
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    31 8 An Ostasiatiscber Lloyd telegram to the Manila papers regarding the Lusitania says Tbe dispatches state that it was known from a reliable source that the vessel carried several hundred British troops."
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    36 8 The V.M.C.A. Literary and Social I'nion will engage in Stump Oratory on Monday at 8.80 p.m. All men are invited. The lantern lecture, Through Shot and Shell (Life of Nelson), is postponed to Monday, the 31st.
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    41 8 1 >r. J. M. Handy has kindly consented to M"c his lantern lecture on Palestine, in the Short Street School, under the auspices of the Y.W.C.A. on Sunday, at 8 p.m. All members of the English-speaking Jewish community are especially invited.
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    54 8 Before Mr. Justice Innes, Judicial Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur, Lim Yin, a Chinese, who attempted to commit a gang robbery with others by entering the borne of a shop-keeper named Pena Ketnam at the sth mile, Pahang Road, was put on his trial on Thursday morning and sentenced to one month's
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    66 8 Mr. F. F. Claxton, Director of the Koyal Observatory, Hongkong, says in the course of bis annual report for 1914 Six typhoons passed within 300 miles of Hongkong during the year, but no destructive winds wt r experienced. The greatest squall velocities were at the rate of 55.4 m.p.b. at
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    75 8 A bill is to be introduced into the Legislative Council to authorise the collection of dues for lighthouses established by Act of the Imperial Parliament. It is a consolidat ing and amending bill. The only amendment, which is in clause 9, makes the agent of a ship liable to the
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    73 8 The Oov( rnor in Council has, under the Public Seal of the Colony, granted to Messrs. the Donlop Rubber Company, Limited, of 14, Regent Street, London, England, their heirs, executors, administrators ami assigns, the sole and exclusive privilege of making, Belling and using, and authorising others so to do, an
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    111 8 A singular outrage and one fortunately rare in Hungkong took place in the early boars of a recent morning when Mr. O. Hutchison, chief engineer of the Cbing King when in a ricksha near Whitty Street pier, was suddenly attacked by six coolies who overturned the vehicle, threw Mr. Hutchison
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    124 8 It is credibly reported that a number of rubbtr trees have recently been found in Inner Mongolia, which yield more than tJOO.UGO pounds of rubber. A number of prominent Chinese merchants in Tientsin are now organising a company for the development of the enterprise, and they have proposed to secure
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    142 8 Suburban residents, writes a corres pondent, especially those lit ing in Upper Serangoon, will be pleased to hear that ilu Huggestion of an earlier tram car service has had the desired effect. This morning, the first car left the Serangoon terminus for town at 6 a.m. instead of 6.20 am.
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    193 8 In a paper read before the Tramways and Light K«ilwiys Association at Swansea, Mr. W. Tiioni gave data showing that the effective value of a tramway rail increases with the frequency of the service. Thus if the anuual tonnage is 1, 200,000 e*r tons the lifo is eight years if
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    433 8 Sir Evelyn Ellis, we regret to mention, is still confined to bed. Mr. H. A. Forrer reporter) bis return froia leave of absence on May 14. The Hon. C. W. Darbishiro is recognised as Consul for Peru at Singapore. Messrs. N F. H. Mather and M. C.
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    Italian Opera Company.
    52 8 The Italian (Jraod Opera Company open their season at the Palladium on Monday next with 11 Trovatore. They will appear in a very good repertoire and the booking has been such as to indicate that there will be large attendances during tbo ten nights the company are
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    Singapore Bar Committee.
    69 8 In accordance witb the provisions of section UHof the Courts Ordinance 1907, it is notified that the following gentlemen have been duly elected to be the Bar Committee for the Settlement of Singapore -The, Hon. Sir Evelyn a Kilis, Kt. Bach., Mr. U. St. J. Itraddell, Mr.
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    The Grotesques.
    96 8 Theatregoers may be reminded that tho Grotesques give their tiual performance tonight at the Palladium, when there will be another change of programme. No doubt there will be a large audience to wish them goodbye, for they have made quite a number of friends with their ujuxic and
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    The Davies Case.
    253 8 In the District Court, tbm moroing, there wax continued before Mr. K. L. Talma the case in which J. O. Davies, a broker, is charged with criminal breach of trust M an agent io respect of $550, money which Mr. Nixon, a planter, claims to have paid
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      442 8 FRESH SUPPLIES !i jusT received CALDBECK, MACGREGOR CO. Lj I 1 ILL J 1&3.,*5r%2± are now Displaying Jtm^J^. A LARGE AN] VARIED SELECTION THE LATEST FASHIONS \f >p£S^Ml HATS, EVENING DRESSES, Im BLOUSES, COATS. M^ 4\\ INSPECTION INVITED. I CENTRAL ENGINE WORKS, LTD., I MARINE MOTOR MECHANICAL ELECTRICAL STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
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      168 8 I VERY ATTRACTIVE BILLOF FARE AT THE ALHAMBRfI Ths Plonser Clnsmatofraph Thotrs, leach Real. Flrat Show, 7 3O to B p.m. 2nd Show, 8. IS to It p.m. A Powerful Sensational Drama THE SPELL OF DARKNESS IN S PARTS. It has a poweiful lh« me, strong icenes of emotional charaoterizition
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    THE WAR.
    1062 9 ITALY GETTING READY. Scenes of Enthusiasm Everywhere. War Vote in the Chamber. BRITISH CABINET. Prospects of the Coalition. 1> I I Mr. T»LKi.KAM. London, May 20, 0.20 j>.m. Roiiir An luli tn »reenbook details the negotiation with Austria from the moment when, without giving Italy the smallest intimation,
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    LONDON RUBBER SPECIAL.
    43 9 (FIOM OUH OWS Cc.RmSFoMISXT.) London, May 22. Tbe following dividends are announced Serdang Central 6 per oent Rubber Estate* of Krian 5 pur cent. Inter. un: Sungkai Chumor 10 per oent Stgg* 15 per cent. The rubber market is strong.
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    PERAK MRShG HOME.
    61 9 PERAK NURSING HOME. (From Oi a Own I'oKkitsPoMrKNT.) Ipoh, May 21. The annual r.poit of the Perak branch of the Colonial Nursing Association states tliat the credit balance at the end of 1914 was 15,536.81. The question of starting a Muiitll nursiug home has been held over ir consequence of
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    FREEMASONRY AT KLANG.
    58 9 (Fkoh Hik Own CoKRaspoNDRNT.) KuhU Lumpur, May 32. Lodge Malaya was duly > mseorsttd, ac cording to Scottish ritual, at Klang, oi Friday. Wor. Bro. Malcolm Watson was subsequently instilled as tint Mauler. There was a large attendance of lin them represent ing all parts of the
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    Singapore Mutiny.
    537 9 ALLEGED BRIBES BY GERMAN PRISONERS. Mr. L. Harcourt's Statement. (From Out Special Parliamkstaiy Correspondent.) House of Commons, April 21. Mr. Stewart, tbe Unionist Member for Wirral, at Question Time to-day endeavoured to obtain some interesting information from Mr. L. Haroourt, the Secretary of State for tbe Colonies, respecting
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    kissed by Joffre.
    172 9 The Carmaux correspondent of Tbe Matin sends an extract from a letter written by Sergeant Henri Galaup, of tbe 15th Infan try Regiment, who during the battle at Vpns, with his section, withstood repeated attacks by an enemy company, and was awarded the military medal by General
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    Orintal Telephone and Electric.
    149 9 Ori-ntal Telephone and Electric. The report of tbe Oriental Telephone and Electric Company, Limit* d, states that, in eluding £'43,220 brought forward, and after deducting the interim dividends paid November 2 last on the preference and ordinary shares and making tbe necessary provision for redemption of tbe debenture stock and
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    198 9 A new process of wood seasoning, which is said to bo working in France, is given in an American oonsular report. The process is given as follows: A large tank is filled with a solution containing S per cent, of resin, 10 per cent, of borax, with just a trace
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    UNIQUE LAW CASE.
    709 9 Remarkable Allegations Of Fraud. The Chief Justice of Hongkong has delivered judgment in tbe Supreme Court of that Colony in a case, which lie described as covering an extraordinary field of alleged criminality and probably being without precedent in tbe history of the British courts. The matter
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    LIFh IN BRUSSELS
    402 9 LIFE IN BRUSSELS. German Mutineers Marched Through Streets. A French lady (Mme. Devrieze), who managed to escape from Brussels on March 'i', gives the following account of the life there in the journal. The city is now guarded by Landsturm men, who openly declare that Belgium will be Germany* tomb.
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    Air Fleet Fund.
    920 9 AN APPEAL FOR A SINGAPORE CRAFT. Mr. Alma Baker issues tbe following appeal:— I make this appeal feeling sure tbat Singapore will be glad to avail themselves of this opportunity of helping towards an object that has done, is doing, and will do, splendid work in helping
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    419 9 PROSPECTS FOR THE MEETING TO-DAY. Selections and Scratching. The absence of scratching* in tbo first race leaves tbe four to battle it out to-day. Nick will deserve great credit if ho does pull it off, on the other band Brown Comet has not shown his old form lately.
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    SINGAPORE DEFENCES.
    239 9 The following additions to the list of ablebodied Europeans williog to serve in the Singapore Town Guard have been received 427, Names already published. 428, P. H. W. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, In your issue of the 20th inst., your reply to tbe enquiry
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    Co-respondent from Malaya.
    167 9 Damages to tbe amount of £1,000 vero awarded in the Divorce Court on Arnl'2o, to Mr. Aubrey George William Men<li, a journalist, now holding a commission iv the 18th Battalion King's Koyal Hints, wl o was ?;rsnted by Mr. Justice Horridge a decrt c nisi rom his
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    48 9 A Peking telegram rays that a ctrtaia foreign minister has suggested the levying of a ten per cent, income tax on foreign merchants having an annual income of three thousand (dollars?) in order to help in the cost of the maintenance of the Cbinise police and military services.
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    War Week by Week.
    3882 10 A WORTHY PICTURE OF NEIVE CHAPELLE. Heroic Fpisodes of The Air. (Fhom Oik Spkiivl Corkispondrnt. London, April 23. It ih now generally understood that the ■.May in tbe operation* against the l>ar danelles in closely connected with the sudden revolution in Greek policy, which baa ltd
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    ON THE ROLL OF HONOUR.
    463 10 Lieutenant Hector A. Lane Killed In Action. Mr. C. Everitt, of Messrs. Sisson and Delay, was in receipt of a brief cable yesterday conveying the regrettable intimation that Mr. Hector A. Lane had been killed in action, presumably in France. So another exceedingly capable young
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    Belgium Relief Fund.
    71 10 Oo behalf of Mm. 11. B. Salmond, Mr. D. Kiolocb (care of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Singapore) acknowledges with many thanks the following further contributions Previously acknowledged »2)7H:w O. P. Hill, Sourabaja (4th) 3J.9S Kicksha coolie fine 2 A. L. Buyers 43.85 Malacca
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    WHY LAMPS EXPLODE.
    958 10 Suggestions That May Avert Disaster. Explosion is simply very rapid chemical action with the sudden formation of great volumes of cxpansivo g:is. Except with the bo called high explosives, the action is simply rapid combustion, due to tho tine division of the fuel. Even such a substance
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    Lawn Tennis.
    97 10 L.L.T.C. Tournament. Following are the results of yesterday's play j— LahiiV |)iiciii.i Mrs. Cantrell and Mrs. Vowler owe 1 beat Mrs. Gattey and Mrs. Uansloser rec. 2, 6-4, 6-4. Mixkii Doi-iilks, B Class— Final. Mrs. de Courtois and Mr. Soeward 15.2 beat Mrs. Hartnell and Mr. Soper owe
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    75 10 The King has commissioned Mr. Ollivier to paint a picture nf tho historic meeting between himself, Kiny Albeit, Gen< ral J off re, and Sir John Kr« neh, on the occasion of bis Majesty's visit t.i the front. Mr. Ollivier has already bet 11 at the front and secured studies
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    MOLYBDENITE.
    906 10 A War Metal From the Federated Malay States. The reference to molybdenite in the minutes of the last metting of the Chamber of Mines has led to asnugtstion that a short article on this mineral may be of interest, writes Mr. J. B. Sorivenur, K..M.S Geologist, in the Times
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    Prince of Wales's War Relief Fund
    88 10 . The Hon. Treasurer, .Mr. John <in it,', manager, hartt n d Hank of India, Australia and China, Singapore, begs to acknowledge with many thanks reciipt of the following further contributions Previously acknowledgid |C N. 10 Messrs. Smith, Macindoe, Hen dri<i and Curr, Soutabaya (May
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    30 10 The whole population of .lupin in now an agaiaal t1,4684H in I9ON, an {•MHrfMKM HbmMMUih baa been an increaxo in population of I iv Japan, the numbers tbt-n being 4o,yoy,iAW.
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    TEN THOUSAND FELLOWS
    614 11 . Growth of a Great Imperial Centre Educator. Tin Council of tbe Hoyal Colouial MMnV tute, in their forty sixth aunual report, congratulate tbe fellows that tbe membership ban riarhxl 10,000, for the first time in the history of tbe Institute. Thu Council state that total receipts for
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    HYSON AND CORDILLERE.
    365 11 Marine Court's Decision In Collision. iid April 23 in tbe Osaka Marine Court, judgment was delivered in the ca.se io which au i v 1 1 1 r y was lit Ui into the circumstances Mtend»u l.i- n oa Jaaaarj I last, in tUt lulau'i >id. k.nttu
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    45 11 I Jmmi battlt ship in to be built at the -l,i Yard, Nagasaki, of tbe super dnadaouiiht tyi« with a toona«« ol 35,000. H<v prifjcipal anoaiueat wiU ooMist of ten U inch aad twiatj !>'. inch Roaa, and four gunx upt-cially iU+iyu<d for tiring at aeroplanes.
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    60 11 A caat ol chronic pliai yuyitiH, in whom we tried tbaae jujubon, was wonderfully nln \ml by their uae." That great singer Minn Amy Castk-M wriUs to the manufacturer* tin. 1 I. vi- umil your Kuuwntbol Jujube* and fi uud ilnui invaluable (or the thr.*t paitK-ulaily in case ol cold*
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    STOCKS AND SHARES
    772 11 . Prices Quoted In the Market This Morning. bingapose, May 'ii, 1816. Messrs. Lyall and Bvatt, Exohaage and hare Brokers, issue tht following list ol quotations this morning The quotations on Sterling Shares are only nominal No*. Valok. Bcybbs. Skllbbs. 2/- Allagar 1/10 I 1 Am<!o J«v» 4,8
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    The Persian Gulf.
    2918 12 SURVEY OF THE BRITISH POSITION. German Intrigues. In United Empire, tie journal of the Koyal Colonial Institute, there bas appeared a very timely article by Mr. H. T. Montague Bell, on Great Britain and the Persian Gulf, which we reproduce below In so many directions is the
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    TABOOED JEWELS.
    250 12 Frenchwomen's Self-Denying Ordinance. While dining with a French family the other evening, a correspondent of a home paper ventured to ask his hostess and her daughter why they did not wear tin ir pearls. Each possesses a beautiful rope, and they are the usual accompaniment to a demi
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    Diamonds in Borneo.
    183 12 It is strange, writes a Sourabaya cones pondent, that in the draft report of the 1915 Netherlands Indian estimates in the Dutch Lower Chamber the question of governmental exploitation of the diamond fields in Borneo was lightly dealt with without it having been thought necessary to obtain
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    GERMANY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
    1008 12 (OOHTBIBUTBD.) Darwin expanded tha Law of the Survival >f the Fittest, and proved that in its apparent irtitality it brought about a natural selection )f the good and the bad, eliminating the atter. This theory has been taught to German school children, and if we now consider a
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    138 12 A regimental surgeon commanding an Austrian ambulance train describes in an article by M. Francis Molnar, that the Morning Post correspondent in Budapest <juotee, some recent Russian experiments for preventing frostbite. "I have examined carefully the feet of all the Russian prisoners and wonnded who came under my atU ntion,"
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      347 12 it is false: economy TO BUY ANY BUT The Best Kerosene Oil DEVOES Imperial Brilliant Jp3.yU CA>E ALL DEALERS. REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF THE Columbia >^ M-g Records. £1.250 already subscribed la Royalties to the Prince of Wiles s Fund. HUNDREDS OF WAR SELECTIONS INCHT>W(; Your King and Country Want You.
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    Romance of Panama.
    750 13 HOW THE RAILWAY CAME TO COLON. 111-Wind That Blew Some Good. There is an element of romance in the history of the Panama Railway, which has played ho important a part in the history of the isthmus and in the initial work of the construction of the
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    Kepong Rubber Estates.
    304 13 The report of the Kepong (Malay) Kubbcr Estates, Limited, states that the profit for the year to December 31, after writing off £1,000 for depreciation on bnildings and machinery, amounted to £14,408. To this has to be added the amount brought forward, 44,779, making a total of
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    24 13 The German prisoners in France are now distributed in 80 concentration camps. Many have been sent too to the French colonies, Morocco, Dahomey, etc
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    Sidelights from Germany.
    1018 15 PRESS AS MIRROR OF PUBLIC OPINION. Warning Against Hate Doctrines. The following article is taken from the Daily Chronicle of April 16:— The writer of tliis column has often been asked whether ho has been able to discern any changes in the attitode and spirit of the
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    68 15 There seems to be little donbt, cays tl.e Bangkok Times, that the Mr. H. A. Toser who is reported to have been fouuil dead in bed at IchaDg. was the man known to the Bangkok of a dozen jean ago as Tola." In the Bangkok of bis day he for
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      237 16 Straits Ibimes. ADVERTISEMENT RATES.-Misoullan. ous wants of every description are inserted at the prepaid rate of II per fout lines for on >or two insertions. Notioes of Births, damages, or Deaths, if not exceeding f jur lines, II each inset ion. For p.p.o. c irds, on page 8, 12. Inch
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