Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 6 March 1907

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 51 VOL. LXV. WEDNESDAY. 6th MARCH 1907. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      1823 2 DIRECT SERVICE FROM LISBON TO THE FAR EAST. PgndHg GCSCK Building CO., Ltd By the HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINTE. Bicycle Dealers and Repairers, Commission Agents, etc BRITISH INDIA WIL’. STAR’!' BUSINESS By the German Steamships HABSBURG,” HOHENSTAUFEN,” RHENANIA,” From Ist Jammry, 1907, SILESIA,” and "SCANDIA,” a regular monthly service is maintained between
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    THE OPIUM HABIT.
    416 3 The Rangoon Gazette of Feb. 25 publishes the following Roughly speaking, it is about a month since we advocated in these columns that a hospital or a ward in a hospital in Akyab or Kyaukpyu should be set apart for the cure of the opium habit. At
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    The Demand for Rubber.
    421 3 Som idea of the enormous and everincreasing demand for rubber made by modern electrical, motor, and other in duslries is gathered from the fact that the total output of rubber for 1906 amounted to about 75,''00 tons, valued at £30,090,0 >O. Of this quality 64 per
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    CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.
    1149 3 BY REGINALD LUCAS One m iy have talked prose ail one’s life without knowing it: it doesnot by any means follow that one has talked it correctly. It is an accepted anomaly in our system of education that at no stage of it do we encounter a
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    The Bride who Didn’t.
    552 3 A young missionary from the interior has had it severely brought horn i to him that nothing can be accounted certain till it is accomplished, least of all matrimony. He had travelled down to Shanghai to meet his fiancee from England and the wedding was to
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    INDIAN LABOUR PROSPECTS.
    348 3 At a recent meeting of the East India Association, held at the Cax ton-hall, Westminster, a paper on Prospects of Indian Labour in British and Foreign Fields” was read by Mr. Nasarvanji M. Cooper. Sir Raymond West presided. The lecturer, who has made a tour over a
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    406 3 Per P. O. s s. Himalaya, from London, Feb. 15, connecting at Colombo with s.s. Della, due at- Penang Mar. 14:To Penang Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Sperling, Messrs. Mechie, H. L. Johnson, and R. B. Ranuon. To Singapore Major-General
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    THE WEEK.
    156 4 Wednesday. 6th March. Homeward German Mail. Penang Assizes. Hunt Club: Paperchase. P.C.C. Tennis Tournament. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. Spampani’s Circus, 9.15 p.m. High water 6 02 a.m Low water 12.01 p.m Thursday. 7th March. Outward B. I. Mail. Outward German Mail. Penang Assizes. P.C.C. Tennis Tournament.
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    Wednesday, 6th March, 1907.
    1751 4 After a delay which seems hardly explicable, Reuter announces that Sir Alex ander Swettenham’s resignation of the Governorship of Jamaica has been accepted by the Imperial Govermhent. We are con* vinced that in him the Empire loses an able and energetic servant and we can only
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    THE LATE Mr. H. J. A. CROWE.
    391 4 Tn the presence of a large gathering o f relatives and friends the remains of the late Mr. Henry John Alexander Ci owe were lajj to rest yesterday evening. At five o’clock the funeral cortege left the Grand Hotel the residence of the
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    Penang Cricket Club.
    91 4 Lawn Tennis Tournament. Tire results of the ties played yesterday were Double HandicapClass A. A. G. Anthony IL Waugh (3 6) beat A. S. Anthony F. O. Hallifax (3O) 6—4 6—2. E. S. Haslam S. F. B. Martin (15.3) brat C. G. May Dr. Skae (3/6) 8
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    The German Mails.
    85 4 The Norddeutscher Lloyd mail steamer Preutse i, having left Singapore at 11 am. yesterday, is expected to arrive here to-day at 4 p.m. and will leave for Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Genoa, Gibraltar, Southampton, Antwerp, and Hamburg probably at 6 a.m. to-morrow. The Norddeutscher Lloyd
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    The Circus.
    47 4 The Circus Spampani gave another successful entertainment to a good house l ist night There will be an entire change of programme to-night, and judging by the performances that have already been given, it should prove attractive. Three valuable watches are to be given away.
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    Tronoh Mines, Ltd.
    28 4 We are informed that the output from Tronoh Mines for the mouth of February was Dres>e 1 tin-ora produced, piculs 1723 83. Approximate value, $97,000.00.
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    Penang Hunt Club.
    86 4 The meet for the paperchase to-dav will be at Tliorhliebank at 5 p.m. and th® finish will be at Westlands where MrGilmour will be at home to the members of the Club and their friends. The importation of cattle into Kedah is now permitted, the quarantine notification
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      129 4 /SARKIES’ HOTELS.) /E. &0. MOTEL fegang. CRAG HOTEL penang /(ills. RAFFLES HOTEL Singapore. (STRAND HOTEL Rangoon. J SARKIES BROTHERS, Bito s J BARK AK IRON WIN E g Over 5,000 A THE Medical PREMIER r f s Tn r a Testimonials have o i u k TIVE been given in
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      122 4 CONTRIBUTIONS must be addressed to The Editor, w> itten on one tide of the paper only and accompanied by the writer’s name and address, not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith. monies must be paid at the Tinavg Gazette” Office, Penang, to the General Manager, Mr.
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    TRUCK SYSTEM IN THE F.M.S.
    79 5 QUESTION 111 THE COMMONS. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 6th March. In the Hou »e of Commons yesterday, Mr. Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to Mr Arthur Acland Allen (Liberal Member for Ciiristchurch), said that the Earl of Elzin, Secretary of State for
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    RUSSIA.
    40 5 THE DUMA. [Reuter’s Service.] London, sth March. The general attitude in Russia on the eve of th* opening of the Duma is pessimistic. The only question discussed is H »w long will it ba before the Duma is dissolved
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    THE UNITED STATES.
    37 5 THE CLOSING OF CONGRESS. Reuter's Service.] London, sth March. A telegram from Washington states that Congress has been closed. The appropriation voted during the Session aggregated two hundred millions sterling, which is a record.
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    JAPAN’S FINANCES.
    46 5 THE CONVERSION LOAN. L Reuter s Service.] London, 6th March. The Japanese five per cent, conversion loan of twenty-s x millions sterling will b“ issued next wrek at the price of 99.}. Half will be issued in London and the other half in Paris.
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    THE BRITISH NAVY.
    35 5 A ROYAL ADMIRAL. Reuter's Service London, sth March. His R >yal Highness the Prince of Wales has been gazetted an Admiral. HR H. was gazetted a Vhe Admiral ou 26th June, 1903
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    256 5 CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS. Berlin, 6th March. The Grand bakes of Mecklenburg-Schwer-in and Mecklenburg-Strelitz both announce that they are about to make alterations in the constitutions of their respective Sta‘es. Che political institutions of both these countries are of an entirely feudal character The Grand Ducal house of Mecklenburg
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    PENANG ASSIZES.
    419 5 At the Assizes yesterday afternoon, the trial of Lim Chye Lye, Kuah Ah Chin, aid Lim Ah Saa, who were charged wi’h gang robbery -and voluntarily causing grievous hurt in committing a gang robliery, was postponed till to-morrow to enable a witness for the defence to attend Court.
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    Alleged Double Murder.
    125 5 Two Corringee women, of the unfortunate class, residing at No. 83 Cintra Street, are alleged to have been murdered at daylight this morning. There appears to have been a dispute between these women and a fellow-count rymin named Citernasah, who is alleged to have stabbed both of
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    Postal Annoyances in Siam.
    381 5 The uncertainty that exists as to when the tical is likely to attain fixity, involves one minor grievance about which a good deal is to be heard in Bangkok. It is at any rate a matter that we are frequently asked to draw attention to, says
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    "BURMA".
    1202 5 A NOTABLE BOOK. From the publishers, the De La More Press, London, we have received Burma a Handbook of Practical, Commercial, and Political Information” by Sir George Scott, K.C.I E., with special articles by recognized authorities on Burma (10/6). There may be one or two persons in Penang who
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    Rubber and Tin in the F.M.S.
    718 5 Mr. S. H. Menzies, a proprietary planter who has a rubber estate near Ipoh, F.M.S., was in Colombo on the 22nd Feb. on his way Home. Mr. Menzies, who was in Cey lon about six weeks previously and saw something of the rubber there,
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      7 5 WINES AND SPIRITS. McAlisttr V Co., Ltd,
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      616 5 PENANG GOLF CLUB. NOTICE. THE PEESGRAVE CUP tfortok touniay w and Stowing a>a v Kedah Government. "PENDERS are invited for the supply of fl. j 3 stationery and office requisites to the ±O Ordlliary and Kedah Government for the ensuing eleven Order Bills of Lading- ~,onths > viz fromlBt Si,far
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    LOG BOOK.
    897 6 The 8.1.5. N. Co.’s, s.s. Nowshera, which loaded in Maul mein for Bombay and left the former port on Feb. 21, took the ground at the outer bar of the Maulmein river and remained aground for about nine hours, re-floating on the morning of the 22nd. Sir William
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    49 6 Calypso, Brit., 339, Lowry, Mar. 6, Singapore, gen., W. Mansfield Co. Canton, Brit., 105, Marican, Mar. 6, Teluk Anson, gen., Ah Hing <fe Co. Mercury, Rus., 2492, Kucimnckins, Mar. o, Batoum, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Taw Tong, Brit., 105, Hassan, Mar. 6, Trang, gen., Koe Guan Co.
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    DEPARTURES TO-DAY
    43 6 Calypso for Deli. Flying Dragon for Setul. Flying Fish for Port Weld. Langkat for Teluk Anson. Preussen for Ceylon, Australasia, India, Aden, Egypt, and vid Naples for Europe, etc.. Sure Banka for Pangkor. Tong Chan Un for Batu Bahra and Asahan.
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    MAILS CLOSE
    445 6 per Upada for Rangoon, 11 a.m. to-morrow. Van der Parra for Deli and Langsa, 1 p.m. to-morrow. Ban Whatt Soon for Langkat, 2 p.m. to-morrow. Pegu for Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleh, and Sabang, 2 p.m. to-morrow. Thong wa for Port Swettenham and Singapore, 4 p.m. to-morrow. Malaya
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    167 6 Name oj Steamer, where from, approximate date of arrival, where bound, and Agents. Nyanza from Singapore, Mar. 8, for Colombo and Europe, Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Benvenue from London, Mar. 9, for Singapore, China, and Japan, Sandilands, Buttery Co. Austria from Singapore, Mar. 11, for Colombo, Bombay, aud Trieste,
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    SHARES.
    1132 6 <2 g N f Issue o Capital. Subscribed. shares VahlG Paid np Reserve. Dividends. Name. Quotation 2 a 1R a MINING. Gold. 1900 $175,000 $140,000 P®’»®® s j® Barrawah Gold Mining Co., Ltd. 11 sale,. ,892 £200,000 £101,250 j A P«"> 1001 Kaub A,„l. Gold Mining Co., Ltd Fully
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    EXCHANGE.
    121 6 Penang, 6th March. 1907. (liy Courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) Loudon Demand Bank 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 3 Credit 2/4 11/16 3 Documentary 24| Calcutta, Demand Batik R» 173| 3 days’ sight Private 175| Bombay, Demand Bank 173| 3 <lays’ sight Private 175| Madras, Demand Bank 173| 3
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    PRODUCE.
    181 6 Pknang, 6th March, 1907. Gohl leaf $64 70 Pepper (\V. (’oast 3 ll>«. 5 <»z.) 17 no stock. White Pepper 24 buyers. Trang Pepper 18.75 buyers. Mace 83 sellers Mace Pickings 7”.7 sales Nutmegs 110 271 sales. {No 1 5.50 2 x. no stock. Basket 3.30 sales. Tapioca Flour
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