Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, 8 February 1906

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  • 20 1 Eastern Daily Ma il AND STRAITS MORNING ADVERTISER. No. 129. VOL. n. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 52 1 AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS REVISED. (Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 6, 6.30 p.m. The regulations for the admission of Chinese into the United States have been radically revised. The Bertillon system of identification will be discontinued, so thnt unnecessary delay m thc admission of Chinese may
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  • 54 1 STRONG TENDENCY IN FAVOUR OF PACIFIC ACTION. (Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 7, 10.30 a.m. The Hungarian coalition have published a manifesto enunciating their position towards the Crown, but it has met with a mixed reception. A strong tendency is manifest to favour pacific action based
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  • 48 1 CORDIAL RECEPTION FOR LONDON COUNCILLORS. (Reuter's Agency. Hy submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 6, 0.30 p.m. The members of the London County Council were given a magnificent re- ception at Paris. At a banquet tendered them at thc Hotel de Ville, the most cordial speeches were made.
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  • 51 1 ALL PARIS CELEBRATING VISIT OF LONDON COUNCILLORS. (Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 7, 10.30 a.m. All Paris is given over enthusiastically to fetes and ovations for the London County Councillors. The inventorying of the churches has br-en suspended during their visit, m order to avoid
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  • 44 1 SEMI-OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. (Reuter's Agency. By submarine Telegraph.) London, Feb. 7, 10.30 p.m. It is semi-oflicially announced that Count Rex, German Minister at Teheran, replaces Baron Mumm at Peking. He, m turn, replaces Count Arcovalley ar Tokyo, who is transferred to Athens.
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  • 48 1 BRITISH CONSUL INFORMED BY CHINESE VICEROY. Reuter's Agency. By submarine Telegraph.) London, Feb. 7, 11 a.m. Viceroy Yuan shi-kai has informed the British Consul-General at Tientsin that the policeman wanted has surrendered. Only eighty strokes of the bamboo and six months' hard labour were given him.
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  • 37 1 (Reuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 6, 5.45 P m Tlie wife of Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, Lady Grey, who was injured m a trap accident on the and inst. js dead.
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  • 172 1 ANTI-BRITISH MOVEMENT. The Bengali newspapers m Calcutta continue to fill their columns with mischievously exaggerated stories of oppression exercised hv ihe British authorities m putting down the antipartition agitation m Eastern Bengal. The Bengalis are being told by their leading men that an attempt is !>eing
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  • 138 1 The Victorian Government has decided to appoint Mr. R. B. Lcvien, son of Mr. J. P. Levien, m. i.. a., as ommcrcial Representative of Victoria m the East. The selection was made from among a large number of applicants, i Mr. Levien, who is a Victorian, has been
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  • 81 1 —1 M— J— I Thi Atlas Insurance Company Ltd. sends us a handsome Japanese cidcndar tastefully executed m excellent colouring. The scene depicted is a most attractive one from the land of the cherry blossoms. Thk wedding of Mr. A. P. Nicuoskamp and Mrs. Olga B. Eaehke (nee Sohst) takes
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  • 11 1 YELLOW PERIL. OUTLOOK IN CHINA MORE THREATENING THAN BEFORE BOXER UPRISING.
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  • 74 1 (Renter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 7, 10.30 a.m. Bishop Hoare, of Hongkong, being interviewed by a 1 epresentative of Reuter, said that he did not much believe m a warlike yellow peril, but he did believe that there was a serious possibility of
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  • 95 1 THREE-CORNERED CONTEST MOW POSSIBLE IN THE CITY. (Reiser's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 6, 5.45 p.m. The Rt. Hon. Walter Hume Long characterizes the suggestion that he would be anxious to lend the Unionists as offensive, and protests his loyalty to Mr. Balfour. The Mail understands
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  • 285 1 FOREIGN BUSINESS STILL INCREASING. Satisfactory Statistics. The Board ot Trade Returns for December show that our foreign bride for the past year was of unprecedented magnitude The imports for I)eccml>er amounted to ,£53,120.486, an Ihtnease JtCtlSt 1 0 Mid tne export^ \\< l £28)653,194, t n increase
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  • 179 1 INTERESTED IN SINGAPORE TRAMWAYS. At thc last ■antral Meeting of the "Charterland Gold Fields, Ltd.." thc Chairman (Lord Gil-ford) referred briefly to some of the principal invent ments. In the Hongkong hams they have a considerable amount invested. That company had brew running its line for
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 434 1 TANSAN, Pure, Crisp, Invigorating. A NATURAL MINERAL WATER <***' THE HIGHEST (LASS. Sold Everywhere 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 <*~*_SOTM .1 1 1 1 SARAWAK GOVERNMENT.
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    • 297 1 £_S 1 OUR CELEBRATED OLD SCOTCH WHISKY. BotolHitam 1 -ii I Price per case ATA of 12 Bottles SOUND AA REASONABLE WHISKY. $IV/*= PRICE. j The Tronoh Mines Ltd. \\~ANTED a Mechanical Engineer, (with chiefs' certificate preferred^ With >ound knowledge of Mining Machinery and Electric Lighting. Services to be at
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    • 260 1 r SCOTT'S I T /f li^lS OF PURE COD LIVER OIL. V ■-*ml\Ly With HypopKosphites of Lime Soda. Cake HE' F777f palatable as milk. V*% ir <■- I TIM onlj preparation or COD LIVER OIL tbat can be taken readily oCOII \j_(_ l/ l 1 and tolerated lor n long
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    • 31 1 BUCHANAN'S BLACK A WHITE" Holds TOP PLACE HI (.I I EST CLASS OF Scotch Ulhiskics (12 YEARS OLD Supr-LiKD to H. M. Thk Kirn. AND TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.
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  • 975 2 The Eastern Daily Mail. PRICE 5 CENTS. THURSDAY, 8TH FEBRUARY. THE RADICALS CHINESE SLAVERY." Some five weeks ago, before the followers of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman had put their fate to the test of an election, they were all shrieking at the full power of their lungs against the overwhelmingly
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  • 202 2 In oui correspondence column will be noticed a communication signed "Midi dleman," the writer of which offers to be one of two hundred and tifty persons to pay Si each per month for the balance of this year for the support of 1 the Town and Volunteer
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  • 356 2 Although we have had a plethora ot testivities, processions, and general holiday making m Singapore during recent days, another was held yesterday by a large proportion of the subjects 10 Singapore who claim British nationality, viz our Hindoo populai tion. r A glimpse at Market Street, the
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  • 880 2 GREAT IMPROVEMENT DURING THE PAST YEAR. A Satisfactory Report. The following noteworthy preface to the v Journal of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association is highly gratifying to the general public whose k no a- ledge of local medical progress is perforce extremely
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  • 126 2 The tug boat -Martha," built by Messrs Howarth Lrskine, Limited vey by the Government Marine Surveyor, underwent her official trials recently with the most gratifying "suYs Ihe contract stipulated for a speed Oj 9i knots, and 5 miles an hour who towing two 60-ton tongkangs the contra
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  • 8 2 NOTES AND NOTIONS Kko.M EXCHANGES.
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  • 18 2 A compound lacture hurts no reputations. Why should a blackened w<- kn disgrace Punch Almaack
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  • 30 2 I cannot see any fault at all j n Varsity men's manners, except, possi b!y, a too cold and formal politem R. L. Marshall, Si. V, i» Oxford.
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  • 48 2 Who invented the system of re f er ing the problems of Government to Royal Commissions? If Satan had ever been Prime Minister of England it would certainly be an invention of his. No surer method of putting <.<r could uosiblv be conceived Dispatch.
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  • 51 2 A correspondent says that if he eggs m any form he has all the symptoms, more or less pronounced, ot irritant poisoning. Many person affected m like manner by rutick food. Some persons cannot eat strawberries, to others mutton i^ poison, .m.l many persons dare not eat crab.
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  • 53 2 If the Government require work ot .1 useful kind for the unemployed, no more suitable job could be found than to build new County Courts for London, lhe present courts would t» disgrace to any small town of 500 inhabitants. They are -_-svnlss»« J-..,.i .1 m the
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  • 57 2 Children have become the fashion It is the smart thing to sit at meal with them, to pay deference to then opinions, to encourage them m then ingenuous llippancies. That is an mprovement on the dreadful tyranny «.t our grandfathers and grandmother-* uut tft_ ...a. ..1 i__
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  • 66 2 Probably never before m the tiistori of the premier maritime nation ot the world lias the hat been so persistently passed round on behalf of lailors and tiremen under the British Red Ensign. An inquiry into the receipts and expenditure of funds ear-marked for of the United
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  • 66 2 A great revolution seems to betaking place m the West End of London. Rich people are gradually giving up their houses. Trices which ruled abnormally high a few years ago have gone down considerably, until a perfect slump reigns m the estate ag« Owing to the
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  • 69 2 Whose is the art that makes tin newest play Twouid puzzle much the critical to say, Nor snould we learn from critiques m the papers, How inucli the dramatist's, how much the draper's. By dress, not diction, must our pla^s win tiiace, And pans to petticoats yield
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  • 39 2 I lie hdilor invite-, COSTS lIILCICSI IO U, M. lr.i,lCl- Mj»S lIIU written on one siJe ol the puoei MSl] siiouiu fXieeU^ou word,. 1 lie i.uuoi la s ule lur UMopSsIMMS ol Mi oi ic^ij.tiiUeut*.
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  • 179 2 Di;.\K MR, Your correspondent. A sVcttWis.ier," calis to notice a decide. l inn among tae Tamil people m UM adopttOf 1 Canstian colhn jiki i.eaise by a l.im., appropriate conveyances forth* ttAWAkmoi In- deceased wile to a Hindu Burial GlOstS'l. li it is so de>irable for us
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  • 155 2 THE T. V. BAND. Di ak SIX. It would bl a great lhasssi Singapore to lose its Town an 1 Volunieei l^and, botii for the actual loss to the bl-- and enjoym-nts ol the place, an 1 loss of prestige wnicn would natnralU beottrl 'or our parsimonious nifgardlines. n fail»i<
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  • 98 2 DKAK SIR, Your recite. I calls attention to a tei iota evil tlie local sourts.and it i> wis learn tnat earnest effort-, are i'-" 1^ ma < beck it. our native population n. tnat Honest is t a be*' though the) maybe ineapahlc ol for ethical reasons.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 510 2 The New Drink I TANSAN wh^kr-alb. containing I —^all the Invigorating Properties of TANSAN, md bj DelJcioudyFl-voored GINGER-ALE. It is meeting with HUGE SUCCESS EVERYWHEKE. Sole Agents: GfILD^ECK WACGREGOR Q O SINGAPORE and PENANG. ciX Australian Stores i* THE LEADING HOUSE FOX PROVISIONS m Singapore. We do not admit into
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    • 468 2 Sastern Oriental DCotel, PENANG. 01R,.A-C3- HOTEL,, PENANG HILLS. Sat*kies Brothers, Proprietors. ■■(■■■■■^■^■^■■■■■^■■^■^■■■■■^■■■■.■.^.■■H _B<*— I INTERNATIONAL DISPENSARY. 8 A Battery Road. FACING RAFFLES SQUARE. The Dispensary is m charge of an efficient European Dispenser, who will personally and promptly attend to all prescriptions. Drugs of all kinds, Medical Stores and a
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  • 13 3 AhF ssI()NAL BURNED AND ffl MADONNA THROWN ,MA INTO RIVER.
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  • 57 3 (Rf utcrs Agency submarine telegrap! Lor/on. Feb. 7. ?*5 P nl Disturbances m connection wrththe .^ntorving of chattels m the French Surd Itrrday at A'en- on Cherbourg and Sunt Cloud Al the las! named place revolutionJl broke into the C athed.al, burned umal and threw an
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  • 44 3 TEAM FROM THK MALAY STATES It) COMPETE AT BISLEY (Rcuu: By submarine telegraph.) LoKOOM, Feb. 7, 515 p.m. \t a meeting of the National Rifle Association it has been announced that from the Malay States and la would compete at Bisley.
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  • 34 3 SIR HKNRYCRAIK FOR GLASGOW AND ABERDEEN. ißeuttr's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) London, Feb. 7, 1 1 a.m. Henry Craik, the Unionist candidate, has been elected from the Glasgow md Aberdee:. Tniversities.
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  • 30 3 rURKS SEND MOUNTAIN BATTERIES Rt liters Agency. By submarine telegTaph.) Loni>on, Feb. 7, 1 1 a.m. Two thousand Redifs with two mountain batteries have sailed for Yemen.
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  • 44 3 WILL BE HELD IN APRIL. Reuter'^ AfMCy By submarine telegraph.* London, F*eb. 7, 1 1 a.m. Ihc election- tor the State Douma will be held on the 7th of April and the Pouma will Open on the 28th of thc >.imc month.
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  • 30 3 ißeuter's Agency. By submarine telegraph.) loon, Feb, 7. 1 1 am Hie funeral of the late King Christian of Denmark will take place on the iSth instant
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  • 27 3 DUBLIN PRIVY COUNCIL TAKES A( TION. Reuters Agency. By submarine telegraph.) >.i 5 p.m. I'lv ft v Council at Dublin has re- 'Hlamatioiis under the
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  • 27 3 ARMY ORDER PUBLISHED. By submarine telegraph.* London, Feb. 7, 5.15 p.m. An army order 'mere ises the pay of oloui ts i'Y sixpence daily.
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  • 320 3 GENERAL MEETING DECIDES TO CHANGE TITLE. Ihi first general meeting of the lub.hitherto styled Bohemian," was held m the club'< premises last At r. Mr. B. Buckley presided, and there ■ni representative attendance of mcml the President briefly reviewed the history of the formation* of the Club.
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  • 43 3 Kaltcca** riWet is rc P° rtcd m s .■■'••'.'""■ai eanpol the S. V.Cwill April, the Volunteers going <n.rV Ku „K m <oal dimmer was lost r ■'■'•ird f rom thc N nnvcj ian steamer Sunday las, while she was wsy down from Hongkong.
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  • 422 3 A KRANI IN TOUBLE. Mysterious Leakage Somewhere. Before Mr. Seth yesterday. Wee Chek Choon, formerly a krani m the employ of Chop Ghek Choon was charged ith criminal breach of trust m resptct of thc sum of 1 3,900. Messrs, Montagu Harris and R. W. Braddcli
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  • 398 3 ANNUAL REPORT. The Hon. Treasurer of the Destitute Strangers and Prisoners' Aid Fund, m presenting his statement of accounts for the year ending 31st December 1005, desires to express the thanks of the Committee for the generous manner m which the European public have
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  • 148 3 THEFT AT CADONARE CO'S Yesterday a Chinaman was arrested for stealing dozen cloth umbrellas said to be valued at about Si 5. This man was engaged to repair the I roof and as he went up to begin his work he must have seen these urn brellas about and thought
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  • 42 3 Mr. Rob. Laidlaw, the senior partner of Whiteaway Laidlaw Co., has been j returned as Liberal Canditate for East j Renfrewshire. The S. C. C. and G. Coy. of the Sherwood Foresters will play a Soccer" Match on thc Esplanade this afternoon.
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  • 750 3 ENTRIES. ft. D. M. Sp.ct.l > Penang 7th Feb. 2.35 p.m. Die following are the entries for thc forthcoming meeting First Day. Maiden Plate. Value $400. For all Maidens Weight per i scale (10 st) Allowance of 14 lbs. to all S. R. A. Ex-Griffins imported at
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  • 186 3 ORDERS OF THE DAY. The following is the agenda for i the Legislative Council tomorrow (Friday): i Corporations Duty Bill (to impose a duty on the property of bodies corporate and unincorporate). 3rd Reading. 2 Vagrancy Bill (for thc establishment of houses of detention for vagrants). Committee. Banishment
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  • 1201 3 ss r. Tanglin, Feb 7th .906. My Dear Pamela, -I have switched oflf my writing current for some time, owing to the undulating morality of Singapore lately which has left me with a head several sizes too large for the roomiest of Madame Malherbe's chapeaux, and
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  • 291 3 KING EDWARD'S GIFT TO HIS VICTORIOUS ALLY. The Mikado will be the first Knight of the Garter for the past 300 years to receive the star of the order m its original form, from which it was diverted m the seventeenth century. King Edward, who
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  • 22 3 mAt the Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners to-morrow, applications or licences for private markets, cattle >heds and pony stables will be considered.
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  • 110 3 i 81.75 Fin 7.05 Gambier do Cube No. 1 lJ7i do do No. 2 »>-°° PeDDcr Black (ordinary Spore),, 21.25 d P o P White, Vair L.W. 5 p.c.,, 33-5° Nutmegs (no to the lb.) 3°do (80 to the lb.) 1. 5°Mace (Banda) JJ Cloves (Amboma) Liberian Coffee pi«;ul
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  • 27 3 FINANCE COMMERCE. Government Rate 2 4 $60 for £7. The Netherlands Trading Society yesterday quoted the 4,lns lunk rate at t/4|. The Mercantile Bank quoted 2/4 7/16.
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  • 136 3 On London Bank 4 m/s 2/4^ l>cmand 2/4 Private 6 m/s. 2/413/16 do. 3 m/s. 2/4/ I fjH Germany Bank d/d 2.40 Private 3 m/s 2.45 do 6 m/s 2.47 On /IrowtT- Bank d/d 2.9 5 j Private 3 m/s 3.004 do. 6 m/s 3.02} 0* 7>/r//W- Bank
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 241 3 ROBINSON _-_*g- and Qo. Sewing Machines NEW FAMILY VIBRATING SHUTTLE HAND MACHINE will sew from the finest Muslin to the Stoutest Cloth. Made of Best Materials, light running: Bnd Noiseless and is i confidently recommended as the BEST FAMILY SEWING MACHINE EVER MANUFACTURED New Models 1906 Treadle Machines Vibrating Shuttle
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 642 3 SHIPPING NEWS. VESSELS IN PORT. MEN-OF-WAR. Sea Mew, Col 500, Maddocks, Dec. 13 Malacca, uncertain. Exe, Brit torpedo boat 550 Everett, Feb 8 Bangkok for England. Erne, Brit torpedo boat 550 tons Bather, Bangkok 4, England. Esmeralda, Fed Yet 171 Long Dec II Port Swettenham. Des. Uncertain. TRADINC VESSELS. Agapanthus,
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    • 77 3 VESSELS AT TANJONG PAGAR. Wharves at which different Ships were berthed Yesterday East Wharf, Nil. Victoria Graving Dock, B'que Acme. Albert Graving Dock, Torpedo boas, Exe, Erne. Section No. 1 Sea Belle, S. V Langkat. 2 Zaida. 3 Agapanthus. 4 Nil. 5 Nil. 6 Calypso Charon. n 7 (B-W.)Nil. 8
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    • 92 3 MAILS CLOSE. To-oav. Fur Per At Kelantan, &c Whatt 1 1 m 7 a.m. K. Pahann (be Banka lla.m. Malacca Muar HongNVan lp.ro. Malacca Sea Belle 3 p ro. Kurope via Bombay Z.uda -p.m. Malacca. Kian Ann 3 p.m. I' Sweet'hani, Hcc Ban Hin Guan 3 p.m. Malacca, Arc Penang
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 738 4 [VALUABLE SUGAR ESTATES BY PUBLIC AUCTION. Th? Property of Wellesley )Penang) Estates, Limited. By order of thc Trustees for the Debenture holders, Messrs. Kennedy Company and Messrs. A. A. Anthony Company will offer for sale by Public Auction at The GtOlfi town Sales' Room, No. 25, Bench Street, Penang, on
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    • 703 4 BANKS. Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation. PAID-UP CAMTAL $10,000,000 RESERVE FUND:Steritag Reserve J10,000,000 1 WMaaw Silver Reserve f 8,600,000 Reserve Liability oi Proprietors $10,000,000 Court of Directors. H. A. \V. Slatle, Esq— Chairman. A. HaupC, Esq— Deputy-Chairman. Hon, C. VV. Dickson, I A. J. Kaymond, Esq. I E. C'ni'tz, Es<j. 1
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    • 387 4 Sensational ifevelty Do not Buy a Gramophone or Records without having heard ODEON GRAMOPHONES AND DOUBLE-SIDED RECORDS. Sole Agents— J-evy Stermanos 3, BATTERY ROAD, I SUFFERERS OF GRAVEL WILL FIND IN I |The Pharmacy Urininl Infallable relief. Only sold m J _w PHARMACY #2, Battery Road- Chartered Bank Buildings A
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    • 156 4 SHIPPING NOTICES. Compagnie des Messageries Mariiimes de France. Telegraphic Address Messagerie Singapore. The mail steamers will leave Singapore on or about the undermentioned dates Outward. Homeward. Tourane 1 2 Feb. Caledonien 1 2 Feb. Tonkin 26 Feb. Salazie 26th Feb. j Armand Behic Oceanien 12th Mar. »2th Mar. Tourane 26th
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    • 349 4 POWELL UU, SINGAPORE. (Established 42 Years) REAL ESTATE AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS. MORTGAGES ARRANGED VALUATIONS MADE. RENTS COLLECTED. ARTHUR ALLISONS PIANOS ROSENKRANZ PIANOS POWELL COS Auction and House-Pro-perty Circular is issued weekly and sent free ts any address. AUCTIONEERS. POWELL Co., SINGAPORE. Established 43 Years. Real Estate Auctioneers and Valuers. Mortgages
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    • 899 4 AERATED WATERS. "E. D. I." ADLKTS. FOR SALE, WAITED, ETC, PREPAID. Cheap Publicity for all your Wants: Houses, Godowns etc., Wanted J To Let. Situations 1 Wanted A Vacant. Exchange A Mart. J 1 Day. 1 Week. Fortnight. Month 25 words or under 50 cts. 1. 50 2. 00 3.
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