Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 June 1904

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 127 VOL. LXII. FRIDAY, 10th JUNE, 1904. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    1215 2 for Autumn 1004. FIRST DAY. Tuesday, 26th July, 1904. 1. The Maiden Piate. Value $5OO. A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight as per scale (lost.) An allowance of 141bs. to all ex-Griffins. Entrance, $lO. Distance, one mile. 2. First Griffin Race. Value 100 and $lOO to Second
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    CHULIEN-CHENG.
    806 3 DESPERATE engagement of THREE COMPANIES. graphic description. During the battle of Chulien-cheng, in the early part of May, the engagement between the contending forces near the village Kobakuto, four miles to the north of Chulien-cheng, is described by correspondents of Japanese papers, sava the Kobe Chronicle, as having been
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    THE DUTCH IN ST. LOUIS.
    735 3 HOLLAND DECIDES TO ERECT A NATIONAL PAVILION. SOME MINING EXHIBITS. Holland is the last of the great nations of Europe to decide to have an Official Home at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis. Her participation was assured some time ago and many exhibits have
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    JAPAN’S POWER 100 YEARS AGO.
    422 3 A RUSSIAN OFFICER CAPTIVE IN 1811. Germs of a Great Power. Some interesting particulars of the Japanese Army and Navy nearly a hundred years ago are given in a work by a Russian Naval Officer, Captain Golowine, who spent three years, 1811,1812, and 1813, in
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    THE WAR CORRESPONDENT.
    303 3 HOW TWO HUNDRED PRESSMEN ARE IDLING UP NORTH. Our contemporary the Daily Mail is moved by the difficulties which it has experienced in obtaining information to inquire whether the function of the War Correspondent has not really passed away. There are some two hundred correspondents with the
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    TO-DAY’S SUMMARY.
    89 4 The Japanese have repulsed the Russians north of Feng-huang-cheng. Russian losses 100. Port Arthur has not yet fallen, but a big battle is raging in the vicinity. Communication is carried on by carrier pigeons. Cables are interrupted. The King has been presented with the baton of Field Marshal.
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    Friday, 10th June, 1904.
    1252 4 Wild rumours t > the effect that Port Arthur had fallen were alloat in London and St. Petersburg yesterday. Other rumours were circulating anent the joining of the Vladivostock and Port Arthur fleets, so that one story defeats the other. Whether Port Arthur is blocked or
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    THE WATER PROBLEM.
    873 4 MR. HUTTENBACH EXPRESSES HIS OPINIONS. WASTE THE MAIN TROUBLE. Mr Huttenbach, who has always taken the greatest interest in al 1 matters concerning the public welfare, when approached regarding the water question, said he had before now expressed his views, before the Municipal Commissioners. He thinks the
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    HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
    69 4 [Reuter’s Special.] London, 10th June. The Times, discussing Lord Kitchener’s Indian army order laid before the House of Commons, insists upon the urgency of the assimilation of the Home and Indian systems, especially as regards Staff and organization of military units. Air. Brodrick has replied in
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    FROM EAST AND WEST
    349 4  -  of his life.—Right Hon. James Bryce, M. P., in North American Review. NOTES AND NOTIONS FRyi| WORLD’S PR Esa "‘I Grammar Run Mad. lx the Arithmetic Paper at v,, Chamber of Commerce exar »uiati H' notice that question No 5 reads A Chinaman buys from >.*
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    LONDON DAY BY DAY.
    446 4 London, 20 May 1904. The new drive in St. James’ Park opposite Buckingham Palace, called the Mall, is a fine piece of work, and the great breadth of it gives an impression of grandeur not to be found elsewhere in London. After a brilliant Hash from
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    PORT ARTHUR’S DOOM.
    313 5 A BATTLE raging tex miles from the stronghold. JAPANESE AGAIN VICTORIOUS. BI'SSIANS repulsed with loss NEAR FENG-H U ANG-UH ENG. CABLES INTERRUPTED. [Our Exclusive Service,.] Hongkong 9th June. A Chinese mob have attacked American Engineers on the Canton railway. A. Chinese boy was shot dead. Singapore, 9th
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    THE TANGIER TROUBLE.
    53 5 BELGIAN LEGATION PROTECTED BY AMERICANS. [Reuter's Service.] Loudon, 9th June. American Marines have been landed at Tangier to guard the Belgian legation. London, 10th June. It now transpires that only two Marines were detailed to guard the American wife ••f the Belgian minister living in an isolated
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    THE KING AND AUSTRIA.
    58 5 RECEIVES THE BATON OF FIELD MARSHALL. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 10th June. Ihe Archduke Frederick on behalf of the Emperor Franz Josef has presented Ling Edward with the baton of Field -Marshall of the Austrian Army. To-morrow he reviews the first army corps at Aidershot. He has
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    THE CONGO SCANDALS.
    114 5 GREAT BRITAIN’S INTERVENTION. [Reuter’s Special.] London, 9th June. Correspondence relative to the administration of the Congo State shows that, the Congo Government having demanded the names from the British Consul of the informants in the recent scandals, while refusing a satisfactory guarantee of their protection, Lord Lansdowne
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    THE TRONOH TROUBLE.
    151 5 OUR REPRESENTATIVE’S REPORT. [From Our Own Correspondent.] W e are glad to say that the greater part of the rumour anent the Hooding of the famous Tronoh mines has little foundation. Our Ipoh representative paid a special visit to the mine yesterday and reports as follows Ipoh,
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    SINGAPOREAN WED IN PARIS.
    154 5 THE DESCRIPTION IN THE FASHIONABLE PRESS. The Paris edition of the New York Herald of May 13th, gives the following account of the wedding of Miss Kitty Nathan of Singapore On Wednesday the 11 th instant at the Mairie,” Avenue Henri Martin, the marriage was celebrated
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    THE DUFF SYNDICATE.
    175 5 EULOGY IN THE ‘-CAPITALIST. An article in the Capitalist on the Duff Development Company speaks of the brilliant outlook of the undertaking. The authorised capital is £400,000 in£l shares, of which 350,000 have been issued and are fully paid up and it says much for the confidence
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    SMART SMUGGLING OF OPIUM.
    242 5 Singapore Police Success. Opium smuggling still continues, as if the lot of the Opium Farmer was not already a sufficiently unhappy one. Singapore papers received to-day record a particularly cute dodge of the free traders,” a ruse, however, creditably counteracted by the Police. Thirteen Cantonese were
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    AROUND PORT ARTHUR.
    645 5 THE JAPANESE STILL MASTERS OF THE SITUATION. RUSSIAN SAVING FACE [PiNANG Gazette Special.] Shanghai, 26th May, 1904. Once again we have had a week with very little news regarding the progress of affairs at the scene of hostilities. From Japanese, Russian and Chinese sources we have had
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    JUSTICE IN PENANG.
    226 5 To the Editor, Pinang Gazette.] Sir, —I note in your local news columns an intimation that the man who stole Mr. Parsons’ bike and was convicted of the offence, was merely mulcted in the sum of $lO. or a month in lieu, while for the same offence,
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    THE LATE MR. VERMONT’S SUCCESSOR.
    343 5 MALAY PENINSULA SUGAR fNDUSTR Y ASSOCIATION. HON. J. TURNER MADE PRESIDENT. A meeting of the Malay Peninsula Sugar Industry Association was held at the Sugar Estates’ Office on Tuesday. On the proposal of Mr. Mac Bain seconded byMr. Boyd the Hon. J. Turner was appointed
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    DEATH OF MR. C. PHILLIPS.
    213 5 FORTY YEARS IN THE STRAITS. We regret to announce the death of Mr. C. Phillips which occurred at the General Hospital Singapore on Tuesday afternoon after a lingering illness. Mr. Charles Phillips, says the Straits Times, was one of the oldest residents of Singapore and
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    BISHOP BARILLON.
    225 5 DUE IN THE STRAITS NEXT OCTOBER. The Very Rev. Father Vignol, Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Malacca, has received a letter from the Rt. Rev. Bishop Barillon, who was appointed to succeed the late Bishop Fee on May 9th, stating that he will not arrive in the
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    Look in the Glass.
    506 5 ARE YOU PALE OR PIMPLY. If so Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills will CURE YOU, AS THEY CURED THIS IjADY. People who suffer from boils, pimples, and skin disorders, or whose faces have lost the glow of perfect health, owe their troubles to one cause, namely weak,
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    Shipping and Commercial Intelligence.
    860 6 ARRIVALS. Pentakota, Brit, 2209, Coope, June 19, Singapore, gen., H. L. Co. Bengal, Brit., 2757. Phillips, June 9. Bombay, Hen., Gilfillan Wood, Co. KoTORVA, Brit., 555, Brown June 9, Tongka, gen. Koe (Juan, it Co. Kistna, Brit., 524. Addenbrooke, June 10, Singapore, gen., Koe Guan, Co.
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    MORE LIGHT THAT FAILED.
    259 6 ELECTRIC TROUBLES IN KUALA LUMPUR. The Selangor administration Report for the past year thus describes the vicissitudes which the Electric lighting scheme for Kuala Lumpur has gone through. Ihe disappointments and delays in Penang have been nothing to those experienced in the Federal Capital. Fair progress
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    SELANGOR.
    271 6 Kuala Lumpur, Bth June Mr. Alfred E. Young, the Chief Surveyor F. M. S., is here at present. The Acting British Resident, Mr. D. G. Campliell, has returned from his short holiday at the Penang Hills. The Commissioner of Lands and Mines has left for Negri Sembilan and the
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    A LESSON IN SCULLING.
    1594 6 BY RICHARD MARSH. Author of The Beetle, The House of Mystery,” “Tom Ossington's Ghost, Arc. [Miss Whitby writes to her mother] My Dearest Mamma, —I have had the most ilelightful time you can possibly think of. Everybody and everything has been so nice And Jack has
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