Malaya Tribune, 30 January 1914

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  • 21 1 THE MALAYA TRIBUNE. Vol. L -No. 2T SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914 Price 5 Cents. CUe iRalapa tribune. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30
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  • 139 1 fif LKADKRS RUSHED TO m sj ix CLOSED CARRIAGES. Astounded at Durban. icqVEKNMHNT BUYS STEAMER V ACCOMMODATION. Reute r's Service. London, Jan. 20. V telegram from Johannesburg egthat the deported labourites removed from jail on Monday anil taken in a prison van ■■miles np-country where they pal on
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  • 69 1 BOOM IX GILT-EDGED SECURITIES IX ENGLAND. Reuter's Service. London, Jan. 20. Jollowinjr the recent buoyancy uV Stock Kxchange the lowering **c Hank rate to-day has created a teon in gilt-edged securities since to y of January. Cwwols hare advanced to 4} per Irish landstock 0 per cent.,
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  • 55 1 rth reference to Reuters tele- bl *h<*l m yesterday issue ™y the impending resignation j government of AteaceI:" v lvt here the names of I the head of that i t,u Oov ernor. !i is Secretary an- the ruder SecreI Petri and Dr. Mandel. nZH l V
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  • 38 1 TW I Ire V mortality in the week ending j xl^ ve the total of! beri-beri 10, Two «w^ Ollia 10 tetanus rios r? occurred from t'»tal deaths include "dingfi' T L tWo Europeans. Johns milleofpopiik.
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  • 104 1 RUMOUR CAUSES CONSTERNATION IN PARIS. Reuter's Service. London, Jan. 2\K A telegram from Paris gives .publicity to a rumour that Krupps have bought the Pitiloff armaments [works at St. Petersburg, which has caused consternation in Paris. The Premier has telegraphed to the Ambaasdor requesting
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  • 261 1 TIME DELIVERY TO BE EXTENDED. FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS. Mr. W. G. Bell, the PostmasterGene ml, informs us that probably within a week Kampong Glam and Kampong Bencoolen will have seven deliveries daily, as the business district has now, and that Kandang Kerlmu is to have its
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  • 46 1 BIG INCREASE LAST YEAR. The aggregate value of Japan's foreign trade last year was Yen 1*359,554,000, an increase of Yen *****9,000 OH the figures for 1012. Imports exceeded exports in value by Yen 9&864#00, the difference being Yen 4,881,000 greater than last year.
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  • 204 1 Angry Comment on Arms Sold to Mexico. WISE ADVICE. COMPLY" WITH BRITAIN'S DEMANDS OR RISK HOSTILITY. Reuter 's Service. London, Jan. .'>(>. The American paper! declare that President Huerta is procuring arms from Japan. There is reason to believe that thev are the discarded weapons sold some
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  • 40 1 PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY REDUCING CHARGES. The Port of London authority announces that in view of the fall in price it has decided experimentally to reduce the rates and charges on plantation rubber by about ten per cent.
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  • 160 1 Fong Lee, who was arrested for stabbing Mali Ah Hong in Sago Street on the 25th instant was brought up before Mr. Forrar in the Third Court yesterday. Case postponed for a week. A Post Office peon named Ramasamy was charged before Mr. Brown, the District Judge, yesterday, with demanding
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  • 340 1 I Death of Mr. James Mcintosh of Tronoh Mines. FATAL KIDK HOME. 1 Mr. James Mcintosh, engineer of 1 ronoli Mines. was killed at Fusing at a quarter past one on the morning I of the 28th, while being driven home in a motor car from Ipoh.
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  • 190 1 The Straits Steamship steamer Calypso M has been chartered by the owners of the 4 Kan Watt Hin" to take the run to the Natunas Islands while tin* latter steamer is in dock. Mr. Lemon, Resident of Negri Sembilan, goes Home on leave in April, and it is expected that
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  • 234 1 Vice-President as Envoy to the Powers. NO BUSINESS IN PEKING. (Our Special Correspondent.) Peking, Jan. 2. It is stated by a Chinese official that, instead of Dr. Wu Ting-fang, who has been repeatedly named as the future special envoy for conveying the thanks of the Chinese nation to
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  • 252 1 ''The Singapore Free Press/ May we suggest to our charming contemporary, M The Singapore Free Press," that it would be as well not to give prominence to the foolish books of foolish writers one of whom it properly scarifies in a delightfully 44 Lewis Carroll" article on January,
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  • 18 1 The fall of one inch of rain is equivalent to 100 tons of water per acrc of lard.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements

  • 470 2 HOW TO OBTAIN EFFECTIVE COLOUR COMBINATIONS. An appeal for more toldness an«j defiance of conveiiti<m in treatmeni iof colour was made by Mr. *j Goulburn Lovell, vice-president ol the Society of Architects m ai address entitled "Courage in Colour, which he delivered to members ol the societv.
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  • 896 2 However much slang we may use ourselves, we all dislike and despise a slang that is not our own. Old men, who have tender memories of the slang of their own youth, see nothing but perinea and vulgarity in the slang <>f their grandsons, ami for all of
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  • 102 2 A safely razor connected to a motor by means ot a flexible jdiaft, the latest invention to simplify shaving laayii «!»<• Kleetr?« al \\,.r!d."i The blade.- are acluate I in -uch a way ae to cut the heard h\ impact or blows. The blade-, Iheiet'oic. do not II I to
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    • 214 2 ALMUSAWA Co. W. M. KaSSim, C.E., Consulting Architects. Architects, Commission-Agents Surveyors. 3. Raffles Place. ADELPHI HOTEL. The lavortte resort ot English and Continental Tourists. Families and Commercial-travellers. MODERN ACOMMODATION Cable Addres: 1,, L HIGH LIFE 'ADELPHI,' Singapore. WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION! urn (ode: HOME COMFORT EAST I AB C. sth. Edition. STYLE
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    • 220 2 We Keep on Doing It! WE CONTINUE TO GIVE OUR PATRON New Feature Films Every Time and hay.- pleasure in ftanrninciw tho incluM n in our programme^ Two Two-Part Pictures In the Second Show 9-30 to 11 p.m. SHERIDAN'S RIDE-(Bi^r, n lf)1 2 Reels) 1 DRAKE'S LOVE BTORY~{RW worth-English-film 2
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  • 827 3 MINISTERIAL POLICY TO BE tAID BEFORE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. The following salient passages in an important State document are extracted from the Peking Government 44 Gazette."— We. Hsi-ling and other Ministers of the Cabinet, through the trust and confidence of the President and National Assembly, have become
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  • 572 3 Says Truth: —I invite the attention of members of the Church of England to the following story In the Rev. Charles Heaven was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the Vicarage of Horley, in the diocese of Oxford. As its nominal value was at that time 177.
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  • 142 3 FORCED TO RETURN TO PORT BY BUNKER COAL OUTBREAK. An exciting dash for port had to he made by the Houlder liner "La Correntina" owing to the outbreak of fire aboard. She had left Liverpool on Christmas Day for Bahia and Buenos Ay res, and was
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  • 490 3 Koh Yang Teng, dhoby of 124 Tanjong Pagar Road, reports that I quantity of clothing given to him t< he washed was stolen from his house on the 24th instant. Following the example of tin King of Italy, the British, German, Austrian and Spanish Ambassador.at the Italian Court have decided
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  • 456 3 Through Rheumatic Fever. Now In Perfect Health. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Effect A Rapid Cure In Ceylon. There is no more painful disease than Rheumatic Fever. Besides the ordinary fever symptoms, such as heavy sweats, thirst, constipation and loss of appetite, rheumatic pains shoot
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    • 159 3 INSIST ON HAVING The Imperial Dairy Co.'s Best Indian BUTTER. Mr I. HUNTER, M. A., F. C. S., CHEMICAL EXAMINER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BURMA SAYS:— "The Butter Contains no Foreign fat, is of good Quality and Quite fit for use." Singapore Jlgent: E. E. SOLOMON, 5, d* Almeida Street.
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    • 13 3 KOH CO. 82-3 Bras Basah Road Stationers, Booksellers and NEWSAGENTS. KOH Co., SINGAPORE.
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  • 635 4 We gave publication yesterday to a petition to his Excellency the Governor praying that the Hindu festival of Taipusuni should become In law a public holiday. That petition is signed by a section of the Hindu community. To-day we publish a second petition to his Excellency praying
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  • 113 4 The Palladium is established. Business is good. Full houses nightly testify to this, and Wednesday night was no exception to the rule when a. change of programme took place. The fare was of a varied description: educative, dramatic and amusing, so that all could he satisfied. On Saturday. there
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  • 500 4 RECENT LANDSLIP ix JOHOBE TERRITORY. BXCITUKG JOURNEY THROUGH FLOODED 00U5TRY. Regarding the recent landslip i Q the Johore territory of the \'i a Railway which caused a temporary dislocation of traffic, we have been favoured with some details of the location and extent of the from a
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  • 55 4 Leading Chetty and Mani i mandor on the evening ot Jan. Chetty Would yon like day on Taipusum We are m a "petition to the governor, you sign it r Excited Mandor: Cert Chetty Well, put youi down here. Mandor does w and I jubilant dinner to great occasion
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  • 42 4 Quite a number of H. untitled untitled woman and children in aKff clothes, may now be e- 1 porting themaelve* Health Officer's office. :o: t i a na#e«F A Malay, named Idrw. m rr on the ports having lost a watco iboat.
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    • 260 4 Motor-Car Repairs. WE are in a position to repair any make of cars, having a competent staff of European and Chinese experts, and most modern machinery. 1914 Overland Cars expected in a few days. Humber and Humberette cars in stock. Second—hand cars for sale. APPLY TO: THE STRAITS RICKSHAW and
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    • 116 4 Chs. J. GAUPP AND CO. Raffles Place, next to Robinson Piano Co. WATCHMAKERS, JEWELLERS AND NAUTICAL OPTICIANS. FINE DIAMOND JEWELLERY A SPECIALITY. ENGLISH AND SWISS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. SILVER andPLATED WARE FROM MAPPIN WEBB, Limited. ARMTH SMOKING MIXTURE. THIS HIGH CLASS MIXTURE IS MANUFACTURED AND
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  • 1184 5 BY L M. C. Vowbere else perhaps is Sir frank Swettenham better known ikto in the Straits and F.M.S., where are best al)le to judge of his Jjts. Many think that Sir Frank a successful and brilliant dininistrator and
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  • 101 5 An interesting case was mentioned before Mr. Talm a in the second [court to-day when a Malabari named Mahommed was charged by a Chetty with causing mischief by tearing the latter's baju ami using criminal force by throwing some corrosive substance on the Chetty. The story of
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  • 60 5 Mr. R. S. Shintree Balha, a lawyein Poona. has heen charged hefore jthe Poona magistrate with houses hreaking and theft by night and with criminal hreach of trust. The allegation against the accused, says a Poona telegram to the 44 Indian Daily Telegraph," is that he pawned
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  • 630 5 Second Petition to His Excellency the Governor. To his Excellency Sir Arthur Henderson Young, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and other Dependencies. The humble }>etition of the undersigned Hindu inhabitants of Singapore
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  • 20 5 Wearne Brothers, Limited, send to their friends and customers a useful and neat pocket screw driver in ai leather case.
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    • 261 5 P| "th not in mortals to command snccess, bat I we'll do more—we'll DESERVE IT." 1 OPEN NIGHTLY L l\> j THE MOST MODERN AND UP-TO-DATE THEATRE jjf j AND PICTURE PALACE IN THE EAST. I i POSITIVELY_LAST NIGHT p A Mammoth Programme L Which can only be seen at
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  • 1171 6 Sava the Morning Bo* n cation in England is at present labouring in a vicious circle, from which it is very difficult to net it free. In his heart of hearts the Englishman does not helieve in education. He looks on it as a necessary evil, of
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  • 485 6 A Kota Bharn correspondent to the 14 Malay Mail writes arguing the futility of people going to Kelantan in search of work. He points out that all the mercantile firms ami the different estates are fully staffed, and if a vacancy occurs occasionally the post is filled in the usual
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    • 227 6 H. S. KIRWAN. I FODDER DEALER, RESIDENCE TELEPHONE NO. 2t>i j AHpn j ana> on Sick or Wounded Horses, Cattle or Attendance on ace na Surgeon Carnages Dogs, etc., in the absence m Renairs promptly and neatly OFFICE: WILLIAMS Co., THE ARCADE Make the Acquaintance OF JULIAN FRANKEL of Orchard
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    • 327 6 The Malaya Tribune, Can be had at the following <fc. pots: Singapore. Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. Ltd. Messrs. Kirn and Co. Raffles Hotel. Adelphi Hotel. Hotel de l'Europe. Hotel van Wijk, Stamford Road. Messrs. Koh Co., 90. Bras Basah Road. The Refreshment Buffet, Tank Road Railway Station. Sepoy Lines —at
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  • 634 7 ARE THEY INFERIOR TO THEIR BROTHERS? Interesting views on that much-debated question as to whether the earlier children in families are inferior to their brothers and sisters are expressed by Soren Hansen in The Eugenics Review. At the present time, he says, about 75,000 children are born in
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  • 27 7 It is officially announced that H. I. M. The Emperor Yoshihito of Japan will he enthroned on November 10 next, at Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan,
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  • 237 7 A SIGNIFICANT MOVE. At first sight the movement now being fostered by the Chinese authorities towards establishing Confucianism as the national religion may appear to be innocent enough. Tinphilosophy of Confucius has always commended itself to the Chinese Literati, and his descendants, who are numerous, constituted the
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  • 219 7 Public disapproval of the disfigurement of the country of (treat Britain by hideous advertisements; which has already been effective in getting local authorities to have some of them removed, is, we are 'glad to see, extending to those hideous flaring sky signs whish now Ihelp to spoil
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  • 142 7 The correspondent of a German contemporary states that a .Japanese Commission, representing economic interests, is at present on a tour of study in Germany, in order to visit industrial concerns, manufactories, and various special industries. GeT«f man industry will, he adds, in their own interests, exercise
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  • 68 7 A cable to the Times of Ceylon” states —The director! of the Teluk Piah Rubber Estate have eaggeeted a reconstruction by the voluntary liqui'lation.of the old Company and the taking up by the new Company of its liabilities. The capital will be 400,000 two-shilling share* credited at Is. IrL ami
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  • 175 7 VEDRINES TO MAKE AERIAL TRIP ROUND THE WORLD. Having successfully completed his great flight of about 3,000 miles from France across Europe and Asia Minor to Cairo* the famous French airman. M. Vedrines, has decided to fly round the world, or, to use his own wonts, to
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  • 136 7 Aviators have reason to remember December 20, for on that day in 17(H) No. 56 of the M Evening Post contained a sensational account of Father Bartholomew Laurent's flying ship, with a diagram of that maddest of mad hatterisms. The Bran Han priest's aircraft was shaped like
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  • 116 7 At the annual meeting of the Natal Creamery, one of the two largest factories of its kind in the province, a dividend of 8 per cent, ion the year's working was declared. (The chairman of the company spoke enthusiastically of South Africa as a dairy country, and
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  • 98 7 In response to a telegraphic enquiry, the Shanghai Branch of Renter* Agency has received (.Jan. 5) a telegram from the Company's Head Office in London, affirming that the statement that, under the Agency's arrangement jwith the Japanese National Agency, Renter's Hanking Department will share in all Japanese
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  • 111 7 An unnamed citizen of Berlin has presented the City with a quarter of .a million pounds to found a forest Mchool for boy*. The lads are to he in perfect health and free from "material blemish"— that is without congenital predisposition to sickliness. Special attention is to
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 317 7 HSH BRAND KEROSENE FISH of 2 Tins. Trade Mark* The Best Oil on the Market for House Lighting. OBTAINABLE FROM: CHOP CHIN HUAT HIN, 246, South Bridge Road CHOP CHIN KWANG, 23, Circular Road. CHOP JEE HIN, 303, Beach Road. CHOP ENG JOO SENG, 30, Beach Road. THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM
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    • 580 8 Kon Paketvaart Maatsc happy. so: ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION COMPANY OF BAT A VIA. SINGAPORE to JAVA in HOURS. Weekly expre-s sen ice by the fast twin-screw f.tf an»er>. M'lchior Treub' and Rnmphiu:t.:>(H> and -_V»<*> ton- gross tonnage respectively. i BERTH CABINS ONLY. ALL AMIDSHIPS. Purser. Doctor and Stewardess on lx>ard.
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    • 141 8 TO LET I Convenient Floor Space in Heart of Singapore. This Valuable Space Comprises Office God own Vault of Reinforced Concrete. Entrance from both Battery Road and Coliyer Quay. Alterations to Suit Tenants! Apply to:~ "A. W." c o. "THE MALAYA TRIBUNE' 20a—20c. Coliyer Quay. The Offices and Printing Establishment
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    • 514 8 N. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP j CO., LTD. EUROPEAN LINE. A fortnightly service is maintained between Yokohama via ports to Marseilles, London and Antwerp, under mail contract with the Imperial Japanese Government The New Twin-screw Steamers maintaining this service have; been specially designed and constructed,; and are fitted with
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    • 492 8 P. o. STEAM NAVIGATION CO. FOR CHINA, JAPAN. PENANG. CEYLON. AUSTRALIA, INDIA. ADEN. EGYPT. MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. Through Bill* of Lading issued for China CW-t. Paul Gulf. Continental and American Port-. Strainers will lea\c Singapre OB oralxmt MAIL LINES. Homeward Europe), l.l L Devanha Febr. (i More*) China
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    • 422 8 M. M. MESBAGERIEB Maritime MAIL LIKE CHINA. JAPAN. CEYLOS unnr HoMKWAnn. 0 Dnmltca Fd». Cordillere" y V Magellan ulr. j Th£ l| Nera j, M^ r "Chili" W a Amazone j;- <•„.,; f :;;Paul W Mny.,l M Dvaabea •>- p Mtj aj "Cordillere J„ n JJ "Magellan" V'W? V T
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