Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 May 1905

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 114 VOL. LXIII. FRIDAY, 19th MAY. 1905. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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    • 1738 1 s6 pp n9 Intended Sailings. sapping,sapping.' |j| P.& 0. Steam Naviga- BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION Co., LTD. 1 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. JteWk- sfl tion, Company. 1 ijlggs tXPECTED ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. ffh\ g f; 'H fl MAIL SERVICE. Madma, and |S at 2 t l ‘i' lav at 1 p
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  • 1080 2 PROGRAMME FOR THE Spring Race Meeting, 1905. I May 30tfj, June Ist and 3rd. FIRST DAY. Tuesday 301 A May. The Maiden Plate. Value $6OO. A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight 9 st. 3 lb. An allowance of 7 lb. to ex-Griffins imported into Straits Settlements or
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    • 277 2 HOWARTH ERSKINE, Ltd., SINGAPORE, BANGKOK—SIAM, IPOH, PERAK. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Office and Show Rooms 56 Beach Street, Penang. Motor Fans, High efficiency, latest Types. Artistic Electric Light Fittings, for Private Houses, Clubs, Hotels and Public Buildings. Complete installation- fitted under experienced supervision by skilled workmen ESTIMATES FREE. Telegrams: “ERSKINE,” Penang. WgYES
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    • 133 2 HORACE S. MARTIN, Mutiny and Consulting Engineer. All Description of Mining properties Reported on. Concentrating and ore Dressing Plants designed and erected. IPOH—PERAK. 981 25-5-04. Dr. F. A. Moffatt, r ds Surgical and Mechanical No. 39 Farquhar Street, Opposite Sea View Hotel. May be Consulted from 9 a.m. to 4
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    • 231 2 When 1 Thirsty DriqK Fraser and Neave’s Soda Water. 47 13-1-04 DUNVILLE’S Special Old Scotch Whisky IN CLEAR WHITE BOTTLES. m sHI A Trial j Messrs is Dun vilie A’ sol i cited C after whicli ale 1 e i t ’>(> other largest i i blend will ho J
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  • 1032 3  -  1 is requirements and chances AS A CAREER. By Prof. H. N. Waynforth. Recent developments in tic various of engineering ami the great works of international importance which have been brought, to a successful issue during the past few weeks must draw general attention to the
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  • 813 3 THE BREAKDOWN OF MONOPOLY. Cape Town, March 31st. We are asking here what has come over the De Beers Company that it has allowed its rival, the Premier Diamond Mining Company, to get so far ahead without exercising its old-time policy? Here the absence of Rhodes's
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  • 1242 3 A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. The origin of life is one of the most interesting problems presented to the intellect of man. Did that amazing phenomenon make its appearance in a dead universe l;y a special act of creation, as the Bible tells us, or did it spring
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  • 786 3 ‘‘Sir," said Dr. Johnson, meaning for once to be complimentary, “Bozzy is a very clubbable man.'' Clubbable men, it must be mournfully confessed, are not too many in this hustling world. Clubbable wAinen are perhaps even rarer. Misogynists have argued, despite the prolific growth of women's
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 65 3 A Baf4c Medicine. Mothers of small children need not hesitate to administer Chamberlains Cough Remedv. It contains no opiate or narcotic in anv form and may be given to a baby with as much confidence as to an adult. It alwavs cures and quickly. All dealers sell it. FOR THE
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    • 73 3 Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Gives Satisfaction Everywhere. “I have been selling Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my retail shop of this place for six years,” says Adolph Abrahamson of Durbanville, Cape Colony. I find it to give satisfaction with the people who use it and it is the best seller of any
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    • 299 3 Children When Teething. This is the most dangerous age in the life of a child. At this time they have more or less diarrhoea, which weakens the system and renders the child more susceptible to disease. Any unusual looseness of the bowels should be promptly controlled, which can i»e done
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    • 217 3 FEDERATED MALAY STATES RAILWAYS. ON and after Thursd ly, Ist June, 1905, in consequence of the alteration in Standard Time, all Railway trains and launches will run 4 m'nutcs 35 seconds earlier than present Standard Time. C. E. SPOONER, General Manager. Kuala Lumpur, 15th May, 1905. 338 31-5 WANTED. A
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  • 66 4 Friday. May I9ih. Full Moon. Moonlight Band, Esplanade, 9 p. in Saturday. May 20th Town Band, Golf Club, 6 to 7 p. m. Sunday. May 2lst. 4th after Easter. rj 1 Monday. 22nd May. Town Band,‘Esp?ana<le. Oto 7 p in. ’i i. Tuesday. 23rd May. Wednesday. 24th MayVictoria
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  • 1151 4 The first result of the war is the rise of Japan to a position of equality with any European power, and a change In the balance, of international forces. The new factor profoundly affects the policy of every European nation, and the United States, bv the
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  • 599 4 DARING GANG ROBBERY, A Man Sliot Dead. Before the Hon. A. F. G. Law at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon at the Assizes, Ferdinand, a Christian Kling was sentenced to three years’rigorous imprisonment for voluntarily causing hurt to another Kling. This morning two Chinese named Yeo Ah Moi
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  • 239 4 On Sunday next and on each third Sunday in the month, in order that the Colonial Chaplain may visit Butterworth, the morning Services at St. George’s Church, Penang will be:— 7-30 a.m. Holy Communio i. 8 a.m. Matins. 9 a.m. Matins, Sermon iwid Holy Communion at St
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  • 267 4 M. Chailley-Bert, who was sent on a mission to India by the French Government to study and report on the system f administration in the great BritKl/depp m dency, has returned to Paris after an absents* of a year and a half. He has confided some
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  • 157 4 Lewis and Peat's Report. London, 28th April,.. 1905. 'I he following are the particulars of 26 packages of Plantation grown Para Rubber offered at Auction to-dav Crijlon.— Ilapugdstenx.— l case, Fine pale biscuits, 6 per lb. -17- —2 cases, thick dark biscuits, 6 6|. 3 tkakolua.— 3 pkgs.,
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  • 377 4 Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema lias painted for the forthcoming Academy exhibitnim a picture called the Finding of MoM*s.” The orthodox will be shocked by the tmltal absence of the traditional bulrUsließ Moses is depicted in a glorified white' cradle (called an ark) peacefully sucking his thumb.
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  • 58 5 STILL WANDERING. [Reuter's Service.] Land m, 19th M ay. R niter from lokio says that the departure of Admiral Rozhdestvensky northward renews popular expectation for earlv naval action. It is thought likely that he will •make a demonstration in the vicinity of the Pescadores or Formosa, and
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  • 47 5 JAPANESE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 19th May. Reuter from Tiding says the Japanese have completed changing the railway gauge thereto, and that supply trains are now running from th« South. The Japanese are also rapidly pushing railway construction to the North, replacing destroyed bridges.
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  • 66 5 STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 19th May. Tn the House, of Commons, Captain E. G. Pretyman, of the Admiralty, speakinc in connection with th? ragging of a midshipman on the cruiser Kent by his comrades, said that the Captain of the ship
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  • 53 5 BAD START FOR VALHALLA.” Reuter s Service. 1 London, 19th May. A light wind at the start in the yacht race across the Atlantic for the Kaiser’s Cup, favoured the schooners. lhe I c<Zhalla drifted across the line an hour behind the leading yacht and disappeared
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  • 52 5 [Reuter’s Service London, 18th May. King Edward has been appointed an Admiral in the Spanish Navy. London, 19th May. King Alfonso of Spain, replying to the congratulations of the Senate on his bii thday, referred to his forthcoming marriage in connection with his visits to France
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  • 38 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 19th May. Earl Percy speaking in the House of Commons stated that Sir Ernest Satow was communicating with the Chinese Government with reference to a recrudescence of piracy on the Canton river.
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  • 39 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 19th May. The North German Lloyd cargo steamers which will begin running between Bremen and Australia in the autumn, will call at all principal ports and Java on the outward and homeward voyages.
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  • 33 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 19th May, The Australian Commonwealth Minister of Commerce, after full investigation, says he is unable to recommend the granting of bonuses to encourage cotton growing in Australia-
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  • 13 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 18th May. President Loubet received Prince Ariaugawa yesterday.
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  • 194 5 EIGHTY MILES SOUTH OF PENANG. Capt. E. H. Todd, of the British steamer Dayhestan, which arrived at Singapore oh Tuesday morning from New York, reports that at 8 a.m., on Sunday last he passed a damaged steamer near Pulo Varhela. She was showing no colours, but Captain
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  • 684 5 A Parliamentary paper has been published containing the Letters Patent and Order in Council providing for constitutional changes in the 'Transvaal, with a covering despatch from Mr. Lyttelton, Secretary for the Colonies, to Sir A. Lawley. Mr. Lyttelton, in his despatch, discusses at length the
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  • 390 5 Statement by Baron Kaneko. Three hundred British residents of New York celebrated St. George’s Day on 26th inst. with a banquet at Delmonico’s. Baron Kaneko, the Japanese statesman, whose diplomatic mission to America is not yet ended, was tlie principal speaker. He said he
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  • 457 5 John Jacob Astor, the founder of the family’s fortunes, had invested about $2,000,000 in New York real estate. At his death its value was $20,000,000. When William B. Astor died in 1876, it ha 1 increased to $100,000,000. By 1890, competent authorities estimated it at more than
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  • 726 5 FB|OM NATIVE SOURCES -'Viceroy Ting .Chen Tok, of Yunnan and Kyvjeichow provinces, has telegraphed to the Government at Peking asking for permission to declare certain ports open to trade. Buddhism. J A tfC’d J It is,-reported that the Japanese Buddhistic movement at Foochow is still engaging the
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  • 533 6 Friday, 19th May, 1905. A writer in the Chronicle describes his sensatipns on making a descent in su b" marine A 2, sister ship to Al. which, it will be remembered, was run down in the Channel last spring by a liner, with the loss of all
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  • 315 6 Per P. and O. steamer Jfonyolia, connecting with the steamer Xubia, at Colombo, from London, April 28.—T0 Singapore Mrs. Wileman, Dr. R. Dane, Mr. W. C. Weir, Mr. R. Campbell, Mr. C. R. T. Turner, Mr. W. F. Travers, Mr. B. Travers, Mr. M. Cooke-Collis, Mr. T.
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  • 31 6 PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN MEETING, 1905. Tuesday 25th, Thursday 2Ttb and Saturday 29tb Julj? EXCHANGE. PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN MEETING, 1905. Tuesday 25th, Thursday 2Ttb and Saturday 29tb Julj?
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  • 1140 6 PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN MEETING, 1905. Tuesday 25th, Thursday 2Ttb and Saturday 29tb Julj? FIRST DAY. Tuesday, 25th July, 1905. I,—the maiden plate. A Cup presented by John Armstrong, Esq., with $750 added by t(ie Club. A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight as per scale reduced 14 lbs.
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    • 49 6 A Safe Medicine. Mothers of small children need not hesitate to administer Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It contains no opiate or narcotic in any form and may be given to a baby with as much confidence as to an adult. It always cures and cures quickly. All dealers sell it.
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    • 15 6 STEARNS’ WINE acts on the whole system, aiding digestion, improving nutrition. Increases weight and strength.
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    • 192 6 STEARNS' WINE, for debility, emacias tion, thin and impure blood. Amende girls improve rapidly. An excellent Iron Tonic. The London Assurance Corporation. 'l'li un«lersigne«l having been appointed Agents for the Corporation are now prepared to accept MARINE .ind FIRE risks at current rates. PATERSON. SIMONS A Co., Ayents. Guardian Assurance
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    • 55 6 Wrought Iron Tubes and Fittings FOR PLOTS OF LAND suitable for raii Gas Water and Steam. V-lttOy Ulvl UIIU 4JLVUIIII 250 by 20 ft. or by the orlong, at moderate prices. A large and well-assorted stock always on hand. For informat i Ol apply ADAMSON, GILFILLAN Co., Ltd. J -6-5
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    • 1410 7 TIVOLI BEE R PE AES NTEERS liptons teas EiaHF Bm ORDERS BY CAPTAIN A. R. ADAMS, IN land Cement in Casks known through- I VI 1 I Lfl U IN WHITE GLASS BOTTLES were awarded the fflO B^t R D rT 1908 gold medal /WRFJIIk Frid »y. ***** Rfle Range
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    • 740 8 The Marine Insurance Co., Ltd» TO LET. The above Company is prepared to ac- T T OUSE No. 9, PANGKORE ROAD, cept Marine risks at lowest current rates. LT Immediate Entry. The Company also accept risks on Specie, Bonds, Coupons, Bank Notes and 182 u c E A MANASSEH Co.
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    • 1463 8 ALLAN IRVING. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL INTERNATIONAL BANKING Etflncm and Gtneral Contractor». BANKING CORPORATION. MAATSCHAPPU. CORPORATION. Works :-40 WELD QUAY. Paid-up-Capital 110,000.000 Nether|andj Tradj Socj F isca l Agenls f or the United S, ltes Town Stork 31 BEACH STREET. Reserve Fund. America 40 1-4-05 Sterling Reserve $10,000,000) $.3
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