Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, 9 January 1906

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  • 19 1 Eastern Daily Mail AND STRAITS MORNING ADVERTISER. No. 105. VOL. H. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, ~190a PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 181 1 AMERICA SENDS EXTRA TROOPS. PREPARING FOR TROUBLE IN CHINA. TWO ADDITIONAL REGIMENTS GO TO THE PHILIPPINES. (Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Jan. 8, 10.55 a ra The Government of the United States has decided to send two additional regiments to the Philippines. It is explained that this is a
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  • 69 1 COUNT I)E WITTE SAYS MOROCm CONFERENCE WILL END IN PEACE Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph. London, Jan. S, 10.55 a ni Count de Witte in in interview said that he was convinced that the reports of an aggressive attitude assumed by the Kaiser in relation to the
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  • 77 1 ITALY SEEKS PROMINENT POSITION IN THE MOROCCO CONFERENCE. (Keuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Jan. 8, 10.55 a.m. The Italian newspapers arc continuing to give their warm support to tlir claim of Italy's superior right to frame the agreement which will be arrived at by the
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  • 204 1 The following account of the unfortunate accident which caused the death of Mr. G. M. Donald is given by the Times of Malaya. It rather interfered with the enjoyment of those spending New Year's Day in Ipoh, to hear that about mid day our old and respected
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  • 103 1 Lodge Royal Prince of Wales, No. ■555 (^-C), founded in 1875, is believed in Penang to be one of the oldest Masonic lodges in this part of the world. The night of the 3rd instant was a festive occasion with that body, which met in full force for
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  • 573 1 BRITISH COMPANY EXPLOITING IN A GERMAN COLONY. SEED FROM CEYLON. Among recent visitors to Cevlon is Mr. I-. rlarman, irho has been for the last live years mating ing-<li mm, „f a cocoa plantation m Samoa, ami lias just formed rubber company m England called the Upolu
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  • 178 1 GOVERNMENI l*O I.\KI. MIL MATTER IN HAND. The linh'sI inh's of Ci'vlnn ;mii<>uii< t> that H. E. the Governor has very heartily embraced the suggestions put forward by Mr. James Ryan, fai holding rubber exhibition in Ceylon. Mi. Ryan has received a communication from the Colonial Office,
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  • 128 1 Ilie Sikhs ol tl it- \>n lent da) lia\c iiti(|iir>ti<>nal)ly lost much ol then icligious fcrvOUl many of tlit m ha\r relapsed more <»i less into the practice of Hinduism, and but \tiv tew Ml familiar with then own scriptures, written for th<' most pail in an
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  • 116 1 The Deputy Municipal President courteously informs us that until lur thcr notice the water supply will be continued throughout the day without curtailment, but will be cut off at night as heretofore. This will be welcome news to water consumers, especial!}' to those who have complained of
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 676 1 Buchanan's Red Seal Guaranteed 7 Years Old. A Sound Scotch Whisky. OF Kxc iriio.NAi.i.v Good Valil. SIDEROSTHEN PAINT The Standard Preservative for Iron and Steel. RESISTS THE ACTION OF SEA WATER AND ACIDS, WILL NOT BLISTER OR CRACK UNDER TROPICAL HEAT. IMPORTERS, BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED POWELL CO, r^"^ f SINGAPORE.
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    • 15 1 1 TANSAN, Pure, Crisp, Invigorating, A NATURAL MINERAL WATER of yue hk-.hls, CLASS. Sold Everywhere
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  • 441 2 In spite of the fact that Mr. Chamberlain has been howled down by hired brawlers, while the late Government stands charged with crimes that, according to Mr. John Burns, amount to nothing less than treason, the Liberals at Home will
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  • 769 2 After six years' residence in the F. M. S., Mrs. L. U. Stafford leaves Kuala Lumpur this week for Australia. The Perak Pioneer reports that Ragalla Estate has changed hands at $65,000 and will shortly be floated into a company. A District Conference of missionaries of the American Methodist Mission,
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  • 1053 2 NO FEAR OF SCARCITY. A representative o( ihe Times of Ceylon Wl a chat with Mr Sydney Moorhouse, who was leaving for the Straits to take up the management of the Asiatic Rubber and Produce Company, Limited Mr Soornouse is accompanied by his newly appointed VV.
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  • 32 2 NOTES AND NOTIONS FROM EAST AND WEST. Acute Vision. Admiral Rozhdestvensky, the wouldbe hero of the Battle of Tsushima, seems to see hostile fleets wherever he Malay Mail
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  • 35 2 Sir West Ridge way has thrown in his lot with C. B. thereby swallowing a programme which we in Ceylon can never tolerate. We regret this very sincerely. Times of Ceylon
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  • 46 2 A few examples of mendacious servants being sent to gaol for a month's hard labour for perjury and preferring a false claim in a Court of Justice will have an exceedingly wholesome and detering effect upon members of this fraternity. Perak Pioneer
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  • 60 2 It is seldom that an ex-Governor ol a Colony has a chance of coming to prominence in England. He is, of course, a great man so long as he if abroad but once he has earned his pension, or in some other way secured a sufficient competence, he
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  • 58 2 In many cases, "old colour prints that have been submitted to us for an opinion as to their value and genuineness as eighteenth-century engravings in colour were actually plates cut out from the pages of The Connoisseur, trimmed to the edge of the picture, artificially stained and
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  • 64 2 There are no good and up-to-date novels dealing with school life. The only person we could possibly expect to be a successful writer of school novels would be an Oxford or Cambridge man endowed with the good taste of Thac keray, the sympathy of Dickens, the
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  • 67 2 We hear from strictly unofficial sources that after an encounter with the "All Blacks" our team< are all I colours, and that the Maorilanders arc desirous of taking home as mementoes of the tour the jersey < of all those who score thrice against them,
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  • 75 2 No answer has up to the present been received by the Chinese petitioners who asked that public gambling should be abolished in Perak, and apparently no notice has been taken of the repeated warnings given to the Government from many quarters, and not least from 1 this
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  • 190 2 The Siam Observer of the 3rd instant contains the following account of the death of a former Singaporean Many people in Bangkok trill regret to hear of the stdden death through heart failure of Mr. John Blundell, which occurred last evening at the house of Mr.
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  • 35 2 -merest to L />. .V. readers. MSS m. written on one side of the paper only. No lattci »houd exceed 4 00 words. The Kd.tor Die lor the opinions of his correspondents.
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  • 161 2 Sir,— l am told several irregular i ties aic being perpetrated at the Singapore-Kran;i Railway Office by some of the Clerks and a tew Overseers who>re employed there. It seems they have a peculiar wav of paying their labourers by the Thundoo system 1 mean a piece of
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  • 258 2 m^nin *l In one of y° ur columns tfak morning there appeared an advertisement or a w.fe. May I take the liberty to amwei *h™ k" 1 by naturc five fec two in my shoes, have a very charming fact, skin u ft, II f alabaster mouth well
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 346 2 "T IMES" MINING CANDLES. The Hardest^t^mant^and Cheapest. Borneo Company Limited, "Victoria Brand" y^j^g Trade mark xs n i o i»4e CONDENSED MILK. per <in 2 tS Thompson Thomas Co. AUSTRALIAN STORES ROYAL HOTEL No. 4, MERCHANT STREET, RANGOON. SaXtOH Si StCU)art t VroprvlUm. The Most u Recherche Hotel and second
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    • 352 2 Sastern Oriental Motel, PENANG. o:R/.a.o- hotel, penang hills. Safkies Brotheps, Proprietors. PHOTOS G. R. LAMBERT Co. Notice to Advertisers. The Straits Press Agency has disposed of its proprietory rights over the advertisements in the "Eastern Daily Mail" from the expiration of original orders, and henceforward such advertisements appearing in that
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    • 238 2 GRAND BOXING CONTEST. At the Alexandr Hall, in North Bridge Road. Thursday, nth January 1906. Main Event of 15 Rounds. Baby Sroitb R. G A Versus J. Christie. Champion Of China. Three good preliminaries will precede the main event. Doors open from 8 p.m., first event 9 p.m., sharp. Prices
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  • 103 3 CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN'S ADDRESS. THE LIBERAL PLATFORM. (Reuters Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Jan. 8, 4.40 p.m. bir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in an electoral address said "By renouncing the undesirable character. sties which we formerly detected in their foreign policy, the Unionists have made it possible tor us to pursue, with
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  • 63 3 Gilt. Edged Incompetents. London, Jan. 8, 12.20 p.m. The Unionist papers take great exception to the violent terms of Mr. Burns' electoral address in which he denounces the blunders, waste, and dishonesty of the late Government which, he snys registered the decrees of sordid capitalists and irresponsible consuls in the
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  • 76 3 ANOTHER SHIPPING COMBINE. (Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph. London, January 12.20 p.m. The Hamburg-American S. S. Co., have concluded an agreement with the Anglo-American Nile Steamship Company by which the capital of the latter Company is to be increased, and the line will henceforth be styled the Mamburg
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  • 56 3 TRANS-CASPIA SHUT OFF FROM ST. PETERSBURG. 'Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph) London, Jan. s, 12.20 p.m. A deputation has arrived in St. Petersburg from Irkutsk and has requested the autonomy of Siberia and a Commission for Siberian affiair>. The St. Petersburg Government has received no reports from
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  • 72 3 WILLING TO ADVANCE GOLD TO RUSSIAN STATE BANK. (Reuter"s Agency. Bf submarine telegraph. London, Jan. 8, 12.20 p.m. The Paris Temps averts that though opposed to any Public Loan, French banking hou>e> are prepared to advance to the Russian State Bank, on adequate guarantee-, tic sum
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  • 57 3 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT MAKES AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Re iter's Agency. By submarine telegraph < London, Jan. S, 12.20 p.m. Martial law has been proclaimed along a large portion of the Siberian Railway. The Russian Government announces that it has discovered that the Revolutionary "Committees, 1 whose proclamations have
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  • 31 3 FURTHER ARRESTS MADE. Router's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Jan. 8, 12.20 p.m. luo more non-commissioned officers have been arrested In connection with the War Stores enquiry.
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  • 104 3 WOMAN'S POWER OF IDENTIFICATION. A ChioCM woman charged a Chinaman before Mr. Seth yesterday with stealing one ot her fowls. The woman, it appears, found some feathers of a fowl on the accused's premises. She identified them as those of her bird. The feathers were produced in
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  • 44 3 ALLEGED ASSAULT ON A MALAY WOMAN. Mr. R. Robertson was charged before Mr. Bryant yesterday with assaulting a Malay woman. Prosecutor said accused assaulted her by striking her with his fist. Defendant totally denied the charge, and Mr. Bryant dismissed him.
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  • 40 3 Grambcrt, who absconded from the Bristol Hotel, Colombo, with jewels trunks, etc. the property of Mr. Bozanger, a resident there, was sent back yesterday to Colombo under escort by the N. 1). U mail steamer Prinz Eitel Friednch.
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  • 26 3 A Chinese baby was born a few days l>nrk in Bukit Timah Road having DO less than twelve fingers and fourteen toes.
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  • 595 3 MESSRS. SYME CO.'S DISHONEST KRANI. Prisoner's Pathetic Appeal. Lim Van Tek, formerly an employee of Messrs. Syme Co., was yesterday charged with cheating his employers by means of a forged delivery order He pleaded guilty. Mr Sproule addressed the Court and stated that one of the firm's employees
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  • 159 3 WOMAN BIYS A GIRL AND BEATS HER SEVERELY. A Chinese woman was 3'esterday morning charged before Mr. Seth with voluntarily cau.-ing hurt to a little Chinese girl. Accused admitted beating the child with a small rattan, giving as an excuse the fact that the child stole somebody's money.
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  • 133 3 The two contestants in the main event in the Boxing contest on Thursday are now both in full training. We understand their weights are about equal. Christie is now out for exercise every morning at daylight with his trainer, Mike Paton, who again is awaiting a challenge
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  • 61 3 Yi:i another innovation is to be made by the enterprising management of the Hotel deTEurope. To-morrow (Wednesday) a special Cold Storage tiffin is to be given, all the meat to be supplied by the Cold Storage Company. The best Australian comestibles., with salads by the French chef, and special curries
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  • 558 3 THIRD DAY'S RACES. (From our Special Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, 3. Jan. '06. The third and last day's races held m connection with the Selangor Turf Club was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday before a large number of spectators, both sexes being represented to a greater extent
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  • 262 3 The first attempts of raising silk in Netherlands India were made at the commencement of the eighteenth century, about 1720, under the viceroyalty of Zwaardecroon. A century later the idea was taken up by Bus de Gisignies, and in 1831 van den Bosch ordered 565 hectares of mulberry
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  • 161 3 Agkd Women. Three deaths have occurred recently in Rangoon of persons who had attained a remarkable age. One was a Hindu from Tamwe who was 99 years old the second a Mahommedan woman from the Burma Railway quarters, and the last a Burmese woman from Kemendine, who are declared by
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  • 690 3 HOW CAPTAIN HOEIGER KILLED MRS. HARTWIG Another Case of Jealousy. As announced by wire in the columns ol the Eastern Press on the 18th ult. a terrible cnmewas committedatShanghai on the previous afternoon. An account to hand states that a great sensation was casued in Shanghai when
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  • 181 3 CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CZAR AND GRAND DUKES. The Chicago Daily News has received from St. Petersburg an account of the dispute at Tsarkoe Selo on November 30. The trouble arose from the Czar's decision to have an asylum built at the expense of his privy purse for the orphans
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  • 172 3 Execution of Criminals lnstead of decapitation and other barbarous ways of taking away a criminal's life, it is reported that the Peking Government proposes to introduce the foreign method of stringing the criminal up by the neck— hanging. In future, executions will not be made before the public gaze on
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  • 106 3 Mr. N. Grenier, who is proceeding to Faiping to take up his new appointment as Financial Assistant of the P.W.D., was entertained to dinner at the Chinese Restaurant in High Street, Kuala Lumpur, by the senior members of the Centra! Audit Office and the Financial office on the
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  • 126 3 Tan Keong Tai, an assistant of Messrs. John Little Co., was brought here under arrest from Malacca, charged with theft as a servant. It is he alleged, stole a doll worth $4, 3! yds. black and white check cloth, valued at 58.25, and 7^ yards cashmere
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  • 72 3 A Penang Chinese Nonia, whilst driving over Elgin Bridge yesterday afternoon had three gold diamond studded hair pins, valued at over $300, snatched out of her hair. A Malay near by gave chase to the thief, a Chinaman, and captured in Upper Circular Road. Two of the pins
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  • 81 3 The twenty-six Chinese charged with being members of the Secret Society, known as the Sin Yi Heng, were all convicted by Mr. Seth on Saturday. Some were sentenced to three months, others to a fine of $50 or six weeks' rigorous imprisonment, and the ringleaders tosix
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  • 53 3 A Chinese Baba, assistant to Messrs. John Little and Co., named Goh Kim Seng, was yesterday charged before Mr. Seth with voluntarily causing hurt to an elderly gray-haired Japanese woman, resident in Banda Street. Accused who pleaded that lie was under the influence of liquor, was
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  • 190 3 ENTRIES FOR BIG EVENTS. The entries for the three big events 2 decide <i at 'he forthcoming Race Meeting, on 30th January, Ist February and 3rd February, are as follows The Club Handicap Value $3,500. The Bridge Kongsi's Essington." Mr. Hood's Rockhill." Howden's Radium" n Jules Martin's
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  • 208 3 SINKEH LIVES ON TWENTY CENTS FOR FORTY DAYS. Starved Vagrants in Court. A disreputable looking Chinaman with long, uncut hair, appeared before Mr. Seth to prosecute, a compatriot for voluntarily causing hurt by giving him a black eye. From evidence it appeared both accused and prosecutor were vagrants.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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